Media and Information Literacy

Unit 7: Legal, Ethical, and Societal Issues in Media Information

Lesson 3: Current Issues on the Copyright Law
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Position Paper 30 minutes

Purpose
This activity seeks to determine your ability to identify an intellectual-property issue
that persists in the Philippines and justify why it needs to be addressed.

Instructions
1. Recall the discussion from the lesson on the Philippine government's efforts to
protect creators' intellectual-property rights, including establishing and maintaining
offices and departments tasked with this.
2. Reflect on the current state of intellectual-property issues in the Philippines despite
these efforts.
3. Write a five-paragraph essay responding to the following prompts:
○ What particular intellectual-property rights or copyright infringement
problem persists today?
○ Why does it continue to be a problem despite the government's efforts that
you learned about in this lesson?
○ Why is it worth addressing? What is there to gain from doing so, and what is
there to lose from not doing so?
4. Consider using one paragraph to introduce and establish your main answer
identifying the issue, two to three paragraphs to answer the subsequent questions,
and one paragraph to summarize and conclude.
5. Write your essay in the space provided on the next page.

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Unit 7: Legal, Ethical, and Societal Issues in Media Information
Lesson 3: Current Issues on the Copyright Law

Suggested Rubric

Performance Levels

Criteria 1 2 3 Score
Beginning Average Advanced
Proficiency Proficiency Proficiency

Identification The essay The essay The essay

of the Issue describes a identifies a identifies and
broad, abstract concrete and illustrates a
situation or specific concrete and
otherwise fails to intellectual-prope specific
identify a specific rty rights or intellectual-prope
issue. copyright rty rights or
infringement copyright
issue. infringement
issue.

Strength of The essay merely The essay The essay justifies

Position uses justifies the need the need to
motherhood to address the address the
statements or problem by problem by
describes vague, providing providing
abstract concrete benefits concrete benefits
conditions arising or disadvantages. or disadvantages
from addressing and providing
or failing to illustrative
address the examples to
problem. substantiate
these.

Organization The essay is The essay is The essay is

poorly organized. organized. The organized. The
It takes more introduction introduction
than a paragraph establishes the establishes the
to arrive at the answer, the answer, the
answer to the development development

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Lesson 3: Current Issues on the Copyright Law

prompt; the provides provides

supporting supporting supporting
points are hard details, and the details, and the
to follow, and the well-paced conclusion neatly
conclusion is conclusion neatly wraps up the
abrupt or wraps up the discussion. The
missing. discussion. signposts and
transitional
expressions make
for smooth
reading.

Adherence to There are There are There are no

Conventions noticeable or minimal grammar and
frequent grammar and mechanics errors.
grammar and mechanics errors
mechanics errors but do not
that reduce reduce clarity.
clarity.

Total Possible Score 12