Digital Culture as Catalyst for Change: Arts Education and Creative Rights

University of Illinois professor Matthew D. Thibeault explores the relationship between digital culture, copyright, and arts education. Beginning with examples of digital culture in the arts and in classrooms, Thibeault argues that the digitization of the arts has resulted in profound changes of culture, creativity, and content that have led to changes in copyright. Arguing against the dominant approach to teaching copyright solely through compliance, he presents an approach centering on the creative rights of students. The final part of the lecture presents three concrete strategies that promote creative rights in the classroom: a creative work release form that recognizes student creations as intellectual property, a creative rights food pyramid to assess the content of the curriculum, and a digital sandbox that allows students to create transgressive works in the classroom when not for distribution.

Originally posted as part of the UIUC Micro-lecture initiative: http://ensemble.atlas.uiuc.edu/app/sites/opLZAJ9_rkGygaT3nqeQrA.aspx?webSiteI...

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Education

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• Lawrence Lessig
• James Boyle
• creative rights
• music education

[TrumpyJim22]

How can you EVER compare lil' wayne's career in "composition" to Bach? that is messed up.