Week 8 Reflection: Amended Copyright Law

After reading the Amended Copyright Law, I found that actually the law is not so strict and there is exemption given to students and teachers so that learning and teaching are not severely prohibited. For example, teachers and students can still deal with "reasonable portions of copyright works" in a "fair manner" for teaching and learning in a specific course of study.
The law is quite fair and not biased or offending to academics as room is still given to students and teachers to utilise useful copyright resources in lesson. Of course, as what mentioned in the guide, a student who copies the whole textbook just because the original copyright work is expensive is liable to the offence of the law.
The law can protect the copyright of the author of the work, as well as work on the Internet and video formats. Nowadays, teaching aids are not just restricted to books and notes, interesting video clips or DVDs are common copyright materials frequently used in the classroom. The law can cater for the protection of the copyright and also allow flexibility in using them as teaching aid.