This digital documentary that was made on YouTube both follows and violates copyright issues. It is a documentary explaining the definition of government, and how the government works in America. The documentary begins by relating the idea of government to Disney's movie "The Lion King". The documentary shows an image of the cover of the movie of the Lion King and shows about 4 or 5 photos that are from the film. This might be acceptable because it is used for educational purposes to explain how each character in the film has a role in their socieity's "government"; however, there are no citations or works cited page that shows where the images were retreived from. Also, the whole song from the Lion King is playing in the background which is probably ok because it's only one song from the CD which is less than 10% of the CD. There are also images of President Obama and other governmental images which are fine to use because they are educational; however, once again there are no citations so a person could not find them if they wanted to.
This video made me think a lot about how I will create videos when I am a teacher. Media such as movies, songs and images are a great way to make the material more interactive; however, it shows how important it is to give credit to where you get your material from.
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