How effective media education can be depends in large part on copyright law. The current educational exceptions must be preserved and, in general, the principle of Fair Dealing should be extended to include educational purposes to ensure that teachers are able to provide their students with authentic and meaningful media education tasks and lessons.
To begin with, students need to be able to study media products such as advertisements, movies, and TV shows that are under copyright. Working only with public domain or copyright-cleared material runs the risk of creating a media education program that is too much at odds with students' actual experience of media; it is essential that students be allowed to study and work with the media they themselves consume. This means that teachers must have the ability to record and display/exhibit excerpts of a media product for educational purposes. To achieve this, the current exception – which allows teachers to reproduce media for a test or examination – needs to be expanded to cover general classroom use as well. For instance, the following clip, an annotated version of the film The Royal Tenenbaums, which layers commentary onto movie's opening sequence, would likely be illegal under the current Copyright Act:
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