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12/22/09

What Teachers Need to Know About Creative Commons -- from Free Technology for Teachers
Copyright and Creative Commons can be confusing topics for a lot of people. Fortunately, there are people like Rodd Lucier to help remove that confusion. Rodd created an awesome audio slideshow about Creative Commons called Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know. In addition to this presentation, Rodd has an excellent podcast series and blog called The Clever Sheep. I encourage you to check out all of Rodd's digital content.

11/24/09

Digital Lives >> Legal & Ethical Issues -- a Discussion Paper by Andrew Charlesworth, Centre for IT & Law, University of Bristol

11/10/09

10/7/09

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc. -- from copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com

10/5/09

Plagiarism Today
Authored by Jonathan Bailey, Plagiarism Today is an essential blog for those who are concerned about copyright theft and plagiarism.

URL: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com
RSS: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/feed/

9/14/09

New Study Shows Acceleration in Use of Video on College Campuses is Creating Wide Range of Challenges -- from PRWeb

Also see:
CONTENT USE ON CAMPUS: NEW COPYRIGHT CHALLENGES FOR SENIOR ADMINISTRATORS
A Copyright Clearance Center Research Study

8/12/09

7/28/09

Copyright, Fair Use, and Teaching and Learning Innovation in a Web 2.0 World -- from Educause
This ECAR research bulletin reviews some of the basic tenets of copyright in the digital millennium. Specifically, it discusses the ways in which copyright law, fair use provisions, and the TEACH Act interact with today’s teaching and learning, especially the use of Web 2.0 tools by both faculty members and students. Citation for this work: Diaz, Veronica, Tracy Mitrano, and Kathy Christoph. “Copyright, Fair Use, and Teaching and Learning Innovation in a Web 2.0 World” (Research Bulletin, Issue 15). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2009, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

6/25/09

Resource from Online Blogucation

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6/24/09

Colleges Offer Online Help on Copyright Law for Instructors -- from The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Marc Beja
As instructors prepare for the fall semester, colleges are trying to make sure their teachers aren’t breaking any copyright laws in their lectures. The City University of New York’s Baruch College recently released an interactive guide to using multimedia in courses.

6/5/09

Teachingcopyright.org -- link from the innovative educator blog
EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way. Teaching Copyright provides lessons and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their ideas and concerns, and then guiding your students toward an understanding of the boundaries of copyright law.

5/26/09

Joe’s Guide to Free eLearning Tools: Royalty-Free, Podsafe, and Stock Music -- from ASTD Philadelphia

4/17/09

Content Licensing: How To Monetize Your Content Being Reused Across The Web -- from Robin Good's Latest News by John Blossom

4/7/09

Intellectual Property Policies, E-Llearning, and Web 2.0: Intersections and Open Questions
Educause | By Veronica Diaz | Volume 2009, Issue 7 | 11 pages

4/3/09

How To Publish A Book Under A Creative Commons License With The Support Of The Publisher -- from Robin Good's Latest News by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg

3/24/09

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.

Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you.

Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate their favorite movie stars, or criticize businesses. But we've noticed that not everyone feels the same way. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals and corporations are using intellectual property and other laws to silence other online users. Chilling Effects encourages respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to "chill" legitimate activity.

The website offers background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation.

2/18/09

What's Wrong with Copyright: Educator Strategies for Dealing with Analog Copyright Law in a Digital World -- by Patrick McGrail and Ewa McGrail
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=630&action=article

Copyright for Educators SlideShare with Audio -- from Wes Fryer
I’ve used the SlideShare “synchronization tool” to sync up the recorded audio from my ITSC 2009 session “Copyright for Educators” with my slides. Copyright for Educators; Referenced links for this session are available on my presentation wiki page.

2/2/09

The New Rules of Copyright -- from 21st Century Connections

Q: What is ccLearn?
A: ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons focused on minimizing the legal, technical, and social barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials.

Innovate article by Patrick McGrail and Ewa McGrail re: copyright
...as they offer practical advice for students and educators attempting to comply with copyright law as they use Web 2.0 technology. They argue that copyright will continue to limit the integration of many technologies in education until the law is reshaped to reflect the reality of a digital culture.
See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=630&action=article

1/30/09

Copyright Confusion Conquered -- from Project New Media Literacies by Flourish Klink
This past week, I was lucky enough to get to attend a Web seminar entitled "Yes, You Can Use Copyrighted Materials! Conquering Copyright Confusion" with Renee Hobbs, whose work to add a media literacy exemption to the DMCA has been profiled in Henry Jenkins' blog before. The Web seminar essentially covered the NCTE Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education. In doing so, it taught me some things that I'd never known before.

1/26/09

A Fair(y) Use Tale -- my thanks to Dr. Sonja Irlbeck from Capella University for this humorous, yet very instructive link

1/19/09

How copyright extension in recording actually works -- from The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz

1/14/09

YouTube Now Mutes Videos With Unauthorized Copyrighted Music -- from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder

1/6/09

Copyright Balance and Fair Use in Networked Learning: Lessons from Creators' Codes of Best Practices -- from Educause Live!

1/1/09

Sharing, remixing and reusing - legally -- from Podcast Program of Create World 2008 by Ian Green
Listen to the Episode: The Creative Commons Classroom

Podcasting Legal Guide

12/8/08

This fair-use guide offers copyright shelter -- from eCampusNews.com
Media and legal experts create a code to help teachers and students understand fair use of copyrighted materials

11/20/08

Copyright, etc. -- from Rick's Cafe Canadien

Michael Geist talks with the EdTech Posse about copyright, digital rights management and other good stuff. This guy is amazing. http://media.libsyn.com/media/edtechposse/etp_4.6.mp3

11/11/08

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- from American University
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question—as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.

11/10/08

Yes, You Can Use Copyrighted Material in the Classroom -- from American University; link originally from ETS at PSU
All manner of content and media is now available online, but fear and misinformation have kept teachers and students from using this valuable material, including portions of films, TV coverage, photos, songs, articles, and audio, in the classroom. Now, thanks to a coordinated effort by the media literacy community, supported by experts at American University and Temple University, teachers and students have a guide that simplifies the legalities of using copyrighted materials in an academic setting: The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education.

10/31/08

Pirates, peers and intellectual property -- from Digital Natives by avalle
Digital Piracy – The Other Side -- from Digital Natives by kanutewari
Turning Digital Pirates into Youth Legislators, a possible solution? -- from Digital Natives

10/29/08

Marking the ten year anniversary of the DMCA -- from the Citizen Media Law Project

10/22/08

Piracy on the Choppy Copyright (C)s -- from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

This week, the Digital Natives crew has been thinking about digital creativity and piracy. On Monday, Berkman intern Diana Kimball discussed what is for many digital natives an invisible line between right and wrong when it comes to downloading music, and yesterday, Amina Waheed suggested that youth engagement is crucial in dealing with the piracy issue. You can check out the Digital Natives blog for more ruminations on piracy--including the classic Reporters in the Filed video trilogy, The Ballad of Zach McCune.
In Born Digital, John Palfrey and Urs Gasser argue that placing kids in the position of a creator is a key means for helping them become aware of and think through intellectual property and licensing, so the Digital Natives project is also building a web-based creative rights curriculum for middle schoolers. The curriculum is still under development, but there's an opportunity for you to get a sneak peak November 5 at the ICA in Boston.

The Digital Natives aren't the only ones with piracy and creativity on their minds. Professor Lawrence Lessig's new book, REMIX: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, is out, and he's published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the subject.

Finally, we'll leave you with the trailer for RiP: A Remix Manifesto, an upcoming movie on these themes...

10/20/08

Cambridge U Press Fast Tracks Copyright Permissions -- from CampusTechnology.com

10/11/08

BroadbandCensus.com Presents the Broadband Breakfast Club With Event on Digital Copyright -- from DrewClark.com

10/8/08

Presentation: Copyright, Digital Media, and Education - from PSU
This is a presentation by Dr. Matt Jackson from the College of Communication during the 2008 Learning Design Summer Camp.

Randy Nieuwsma in A/V at Nieuwr@calvin.edu or 526-6076

From Penn State University's Digital Commons -- http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/freemedia

Learn More About Copyright

Copyright Talk with Dr. Matt Jackson (podcast)

Wikipedia: Fair Use

TLT's TEACH Act Resources

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

U of Minnesota's Fair Use Analysis Tool

U.S. Copyright Office: Fair Use

Lawrence Lessig's TLT Symposium Keynote (video)

Fair Use reference chart

Also see:

http://copyright.psu.edu/

Washington — So a professor wants to show Monty Python and the Holy Grail to her class on British humor, and she wants to check with the film studio to get permission. How would she do that? As it stands, the semester could be over by the time the professor even finds the right person to ask.

A nonprofit group called the Copyright Alliance, whose members include associations for the motion-picture and recording industries, announced today that it would like to help broker such requests. The idea, described briefly at an academic symposium held by the group on Monday in Washington, is to create a Web site where professors could post questions like the the one above and get answers from an industry official. The online resource would take the form of a wiki, a communal Web site that allows visitors to easily post new comments and track the changes that have been made. Article here.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") (PDF - 330KB)

Educational Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines -- These guidelines were adopted by the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, on September 27, 1996.

Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright & Educational Fair Use

Examples Illustrating the Application of Fair Use

Guide to the TEACH Act
For additional information on the TEACH Act see:

'Fair use' confusion threatens media literacy
Report says many teachers, schools define 'fair use' of digital materials too narrowly -- from eSchoolNews.com, by Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor

"In an age when digital images and recordings to supplement and enhance education are abounding, unnecessary restrictions and a lack of understanding about copyright law are comprising the goal of using such technology in the classroom, says a new report. After interviewing educators, educational media producers and media-literacy organizations, the report's researchers conclude that educators have no shared understanding of what constitutes fair-use practices, and that teachers face conflicting information about their rights, and their students' rights, to use copyrighted works." Article here.

Related items/links:

"The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy"

Accompanying webcast

Center for Social Media