Copyright

Copyright

In the school library and classroom, we are constantly faced with copyright challenges of when it is acceptable to copy something and how much of an item, website, and music that we can copy. But with the advent of file sharing, downloading and RSS, we must acknowledge and teach the ethics of information gathering and sharing. 

 **Background on Canadian Copyright Legislation**  **Copyright M​atters**: Key Questions and Answers For Teachers. A publication by the Council of Ministry of Education, Canada, Canadian School Boards Association, and the Canadian Teachers' Federation.  An overview and a list of informational links regarding copyright and plagiarism [|Internet Citizenship (Media Awareness Network)]  Sources for images (and some sound) attached to generous copyright licensing.  Copyrightfriendlywikispaces

Key Questions Digital Images Obtaining Permission [|Teaching about Copyright]
 * Net Know How from** [|2learn.ca]

==**Creative Commons **== [|Creative Commons] is a copyright license that allows us to choose to share our intellectual property. This course is designed under a Creative Commons license and is an example of how one can take a piece of information or a product and re-work it to make it fit your needs. By acknowledging the original authors, they have given permission for you to share. One place for good information about what's going on with the Creative Commons is [|Lawrence Lessig's blog.] Lawrence Lessig is one of the Creative Commons developers and a Stanford University professor."


 * //A Shared Culture //**, provides a very good explanation of how Creative Commons licensing works.

media type="custom" key="5351387" Students and teachers can be taught how to use **Creative Commons Search ** to access information and images that can easily be identified [|http://search.creativecommons.org/.]<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">[|Creative Commons Search]

Playing with Images

 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Copyright-friendly images and sound
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Flickr's Creative Commons Pool]: Browse through the images provided by Flickr users who have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> A [|Flickr Advanced Search] also allows you to search for these images easily.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Flickr Free Use Photos] Photo sharing, no attribution necessary
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Flickr Storm] (select appropriate Creative Common license from pull-down menu)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Creative Commons]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Creative Commons Videos]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|TagGallery] Creates a globe of Flickr images
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Pic App] Quality stock images
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|MagMyPic] - Fake magazine covers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|TypoGenerator] - Create a poster from images and letters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Swivel] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 144%;"> - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Create graphs with data