Teacher Tube Video Critiques

50 States and Capitals (cartoon song)

This is a good example of something that did not follow copyright laws properly. They use the Animaniacs cartoon of the states and capitals, which is a great resource for learning and so it's clear that they were using it for educational purposes. However, they made several mistakes as far as copyright goes. They used the cartoon without citing it, which should always happen no matter how much of the material you use or if you got permission for it. Also, they show the entire song, which is probably the only part of that episode people will really want anyway, so they are using more than they should have and not even citing the source. What they could do differently is either show just a little clip and then write down all the rest of the states and capitals and cite the cartoon, or they could obtain permission for using this clip and still cite it because that should always happen.

Kids and Kubs Softball

This video uses lots of images from the war and just general pictures of Florida and people playing softball and other things like that. Most of the pictures I think were the man in the video's own pictures and so they don't need to be cited, but there were a few that I don't think were his. They seemed to come from other sources and other photographers and so they were not his to display without permission. Now, because this video is education, I think it was ok to use them. Also, there was not more than five from one photographer or anything like that. So, the amount used was ok under Fair Use, but they still were not cited. So, in order to make this comply with copyright laws, I would suggest that they have a credit at the end with the sources of the photographs that were not directly from the subject of the video or the person who made the video themself. Other than that, it looks pretty kosher.