Creative Commons & Copyright
This website has been created following Copyright and Fair Use laws. This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Images are on the teacher resource page were created by Zlatko Najdenovski and retrieved from https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/logotypes. The black Labrador was retrieved from http://cliparts.co/clipart/3018813. All other images retrieved directly from the sites they are linked to and all rights belong to those individual sites.
What is Copyright?
According to Google copyright [cop·y·right] is “1. the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same,” (Google, 2015) but what does that really mean? With the age of Internet, everything is at our fingertips. That does not mean, however, everything is free for the taking. Copyright is protection for the work someone has created. Images, writing, music protected from someone else using it for their own benefit knowingly or otherwise. This means that you cannot use something without permission or without giving proper citation even if it is posted online.
What is Fair Use?
Fair Use allows students and teachers to use up to 10% of the original work for classroom use, with restrictions. “The fair use doctrine was created to allow the use of copyrighted works for criticism and commentary, parody, news reporting, research and scholarship, and classroom instruction.” (Starr, 2010) If you are looking at using copyrighted material for the classroom, you can only use a small portion and it must have educational value and purpose.
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a way for someone to give permission to use his or work to anyone. “CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only non-commercial uses) and protects the people who use your work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions you have specified.” (Creative Commons, 2014) When searching and using images, videos, and music, look for the Creative Commons license to see how you are able to use it in your work. Does the originator allow you to make any changes, use it for resell, etc? The license will provide that information.
Looking for some great sources?
http://www.sitepoint.com/30-creative-commons-sources/
https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/logotypes
http://search.creativecommons.org/
http://cliparts.co/clipart/3018813
Resources:
Keep the internet creative, free and open. (2014). Retrieved July 12, 2015, from http://creativecommons.org/about
Miler, T. (n.d.). Copyright Law and You! Retrieved July 12, 2015, from https://youtu.be/XES6jSAzxmk
Starr, L. (2010). Is Fair Use a License to Steal? Retrieved July 12, 2015, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280b.shtml
What is copyright - Google Search. (n.d.). Retrieved July 12, 2015.