The comic that I read (read it here: http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/zoomcomic.html) was all about copyright and fair use laws, the main conflict regards a woman who hopes to publish a work that illuminates the life of the new yorker.
One of the things that I learned, and that stuck with me, is that copyright laws are relatively new: anything before 1923 is all a part of the public domain. After that any work published could be copyrighted and prevent use; however, Fair Use acts enable people to reference and reproduce work for things such as critiques. Claiming fair use is something that can be done by anyone if they can justify their reasoning; educators can use copyrighted works for educational purposes for example.
As a teacher there are laws that enable me to use work for educational purposes. However, it is not applicable to everything. For example, Disney once had such tight copyright laws on their films that schools could not present them in class without violating them. As an educator I will have to teach my students how to reference works without infringing the copyrights.
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