disney and copyright laws

I am so glad that we learned about Fair Use Policy; however, I have to admit that I plan on breaking a few rules. But at least now I know them! There is just no way that I won't have music in my classroom or will only be showing three minutes of movies. These things are vital to the classroom environment that I plan to entertain. I think there should be exceptions to the Fair Use Policy for use in public education where the funds to purchase the materials are just not there. At the very least, we should be given the opportunity to use more of the media than non-educators do (or something to that effect--I'm sure something could be worked out if we asked Disney kindly enough..). At any rate, the information presented was definitely useful because we were given many options for obtaining copyrighted materials by means other than stealing it. Cable in the Classroom is a good resource that I discovered as a result of this presentation, and the Powerpoint contains helpful notes regarding how much of each type of copyrighted media we are allowed to use for free. Also, I LOVED the Disney film and will definitely be using that in my classroom when it comes time for me to teach my students about copyright infringement.