Reflection on week 8: Hong Kong's amended copyright law: a guide for teachers and students.

This is a leaflet showing the information which teachers and students can use and not breaking the law. That is copyright. Publishers or writers have their rights on their works and people might break the law if they use others' works without authorization. So copyright is use for protecting the origional works' producer.

However, sometimes it is hard for teachers or students by using others' works "with" authorization, especially for my primary students. They are still too young to understand what is copyright about and they do not know how to reference the resources. Maybe it is not too harsh for language course. But it is extremely hard for General Studies course. For example, primary four to five students in my school need to do newspaper cutting every two weeks. They might be able to find a source. But maybe they are too lazy or they do not even know how to analyze a newspaper article. Most of them only copy a whole paragraph from the article. They do not care about "copyright" even teachers keep telling them not copy the whole thing from newspapers. Therefore, I think it is essential for schools to organize an introduction course of copyright in the beginning of a turn. And also teachers should guide students how to make a good use of resources by avoiding copy the whole paragraph.
Recently in this school year, I've informed that my school purchased copyrights from two newspaper companies. Therefore, teachers can copy some articles for their students for teaching purpose of course. However, there is a limit of copies for each article.