Copyright Information and Assignment

First of all, I had no idea there were so many resources about copyright laws specifically for educators and students. Here are a couple of links I want to keep track of  my future teaching:

Copyright Scenario Checklist
Copyright Guidelines for Students
Copyright Education

Here are a few more links for creative commons, an incredible network of sharing work I never knew existed:

Wikimedia Commons
Free Play Music
Fotolia
Creative Commons/Flickr

Now that I have all these jewels on my blog, I'll go on with my assignment which is to critique how two videos make use of copyright laws. The first video I was unable to embed because that feature had been disabled, so here is the link instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jba5HsWDsA
I decided to use this video clip because I've thought about doing something similar in my future English classes--talking about things you learned in class that you also found in pop culture or the world outside of the classroom. From what I can tell in the video, the teacher doesn't necessarily show clips in class of pop culture references to history, the students just bring it up to the teacher. This doesn't really touch on copyright law at all, but my guess is that the teacher does show the occasional clip in class. This would be perfectly acceptable under copyright law because a clip is only a small percentage of a work and would be educational because it would be helping students understand what was taught in class. When it comes to the actual video however, it seems likely that the teacher might have stepped on some copyright laws. There are both clips and music used in the video and neither have any sort of citation. The good thing, however, is that only short clips are used and only small portions of songs. With additional citation in the ending credits, the teacher would be completely free from copyright problems.
One question I do have is how copyright works if you have citation around the video but not in the video. For example, in this video there is no citation for any music, but under the video there is a link to download the song from iTunes. Is it infringement of copyright law to have a video that could so easily be separated from the citations?

Next video:


I thought this video was really great. This would probably be similar to something I would show in my English classes during banned book week or if we were discussing this topic at the time because it could really pull students into the topic. This could also be a great assignment for students to get them more involved. As far as copyright laws for this video, there was no citation for the music or the pictures of the book covers. I know the music needs citation, but I actually don't know if the same rules apply for images also applies to book covers. I'm guessing it would be safe to say so and cite it anyway. So, although the video was great, it could become completely legitimate with just a couple more citations.

Though copyright can be a pretty bland topic, seeing it in action and applying it to what I see has really helped me see how easy it can be to follow the law and still have great resources for my future students.