Faculty Publications

The Missing Link: The Lack of Citations and Copyright Notices in Multimedia Presentations

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property, Multimedia

Journal/Book/Conference Title

TechTrends

Volume

54

First Page

38

Last Page

44

Abstract

Many of the projects and assignments we have our students complete for our classes include a multimedia presentation. Why are we not teaching our students how to cite their sources for these presentations? Writing style (APA, MLA, or Chicago) does not matter. Regardless of whether it is a paper or multimedia presentation students should always cite their sources, otherwise plagiarism is occurring. This is a skill we must teach and demand that our students take responsibility for when completing multimedia presentations. This article covers a brief overview of copyright law, provides helpful resources for students and teachers, and outlines a model that can be used in citing sources in multimedia presentations. This model goes beyond the producer required credit slide to argue for the inclusion of “in product/text” citations for multimedia presentations.

Department

College of Graduate, Research, and Online Education

Original Publication Date

4-24-2010

DOI of published version

10.1007/s11528-010-0401-8

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