Windows Movie Maker is a great AV production tool that I have used several times over the past four years. My first video was for an English class that I took and it was a 30 minute video including music and sound effects, and took a lot of time to edit and organize. Since then, I have made numerous slide shows with music in the background using this software. It is a software that is very compatible with camera videos, videos taken on a mobile device, and videos taken from a webcam, making it an easy application to use. I find it to be very navigable with the tool bar at the top of the page and easy ways to edit the video.
Although it has been very easy to create videos using this software, copyrighting has become a very large issue. After making a slide show of pictures with music from my iTunes in the background, I was not allowed to upload the video to Facebook or YouTube because of the copyrighting infringement. This is a big issue when uploading videos because of the dangers of ‘stealing’ work from others.
As for defamation on the internet, there are laws that that “balance [the] protection of individual reputation with freedom of expression” (Defamation Laws & the Internet, 2006). Although in the United States there is a “freedom of speech” in the basic Bill of Rights, there is still some moments that you cross the line. It is important to obviously state the humor of mocking the person and/or state that the information stated is not based off of any events or persons. Doing this will help you to avoid the defamation consequences.
‘Defamation Laws & the Internet’, Electronic Frontiers Australia, viewed 14 January 2006 via http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/defamation.html
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