HW5… Ethics & Legality
For Homework 5 I decided to look at the Teachers Pay Teachers website. In relation to ethics, the website seems pretty ethical to me. It doesn’t seem to be trying to scam or harm teachers in any way. The website itself says that it is an open marketplace for educators and to me, there is nothing unethical about open marketplaces. Especially in this case because you are required to be a member in order to buy or sell any educational material and they do say that registration is free. It is up to the creators of these materials to submit the original works to this marketplace, they are not being submitted without the creators permission. If they were, then I would say that this was an unethical website. As far as it being legal, I would like to think it is. I cannot see why an open marketplace where you submit your own ideas would be illegal. However, there could possibly be some illegal downsides to it. For instance, if someone submits another persons original work without them having an knowledge of it. With digital media in general, everything could be a potential risk if you don’t know what your doing and you do not do your research. Ethics and legality, in my opinion, tend to go hand in hand in most cases but there is always exceptions to the rules.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.