School and copyright
The crisis, which no one wants to deal with any more, but which is permanently rubbed in our faces because the media have nothing better to do, has caused excesses in a direction that no conspiracy myth has got up its sleeve. We would like to contribute something positive and show something on our channel, profile or account online that has helped us during the hard times - once a normal wish, now more of a phenomenon.
But beware, copyright law clearly states that even if we have bought something, we are not allowed to use it to make it available for several people to view. What caused an outcry on youtube and Wikipedia years ago, when data and copyright protection still collided with fundamental rights, which thanks to Corona is now only wastepaper, could become a problem again this year.
If there should ever again be lessons in schools where children are taught to be creative - at least until they can read and perhaps write - an educator (m/f/d) might come up with the idea of wanting to teach the pupils (m/f/d) what he once experienced himself: Collages.
For those who have never seen the inside of a classroom, let us explain what makes it different from homeschooling, where everything is allowed except putting the dear little ones on your lap in the telco with the boss (m/f/d) or running through the picture: this is when scraps are torn out or cut out of old magazines and glued onto a movable base - no, not a desk, but a large cardboard or clay paper, for example - to create a completely new motif.
An appropriate number of happy model faces from pafum advertising pages, for example, becomes a treetop full of heads; or the tyres from the car advertisements in a bowl formed with wax crayon together with the aluminium rims into a rubber-metal salad.
What is still okay at home because no one gets to see it, except maybe the grandparents, if they ever dare to visit again, poses an immense problem for the public at school. For such collages are often exhibited, hung above the cloakroom in front of the classrooms or even forced on an open day to be viewed by every passer-by, one of whom might work for Gema.
Such a collage thus violates copyright law and the collecting societies must intervene. It will be easy to identify the lawbreakers because the teachers write their names, dates and classes on the backs and the bureaucracy goes about its business.
Each snippet is traced and examined for the person depicted, the client and the photographer. It only gets complicated if the underlying printed works were made available to the school free of charge by a kiosk operator (m/f/d) who wanted to use the old magazines in this way for a better purpose than recycling them in toilet paper or egg carton production. Then this person will also be held accountable, let no one believe that good intentions or ignorance protect against punishment in this country.
Similarities with current procedures of blocking posts, video uploads or podcasts that outnumber their viewers/listeners (m/f/d) but that do not count because the possibility of making it available worldwide is decisive would be purely coincidental and not intended.