Copyright+Resources

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Educational Uses of Media
[|Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education] From the American University School of Communication, a video and document that helps educators interpret the fair use copyright doctrine for media literacy. This code was released in November, 2008, as the authoritative guide for fair use in the classroom. This code consists of (5) key areas, which was constructed by experts in the field across the U.S. Teachers should rely on these guidelines in curricular planning and teaching in the classroom.

[|Electronic Frontier Foundation's Curriculum, Teaching Copyright] "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."

Creative Commons
[|Creative Commons] Creative Commons offers resources, educational information, and easy, online licensing for media. This site is a treasure chest for all your creative commons needs.

[|Creative Commons Network] "Creative Commons, at its core, is about supporting global participatory culture. By joining the Creative Commons Network, you will be joining a worldwide community dedicated to building the Commons — the pool of content, of knowledge, that is freely and legally accessible to everyone — a vital public resource in this digital age."

Video: What is Creative Commons? (3:01 minutes)
By [|Creative Commons]

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Video: Get Creative(6:58)
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Creative Commons Music
Use the search tool on the [|Creative Commons] web site to access music that you can remix and repurpose for your own projects.

Creative Commons Photos & Images
[|Flickr] a free photo sharing site; no membership or sign-up required to surf or borrow images; click on the "advanced search" link and then scroll down the page, checking off "creative commons", so that you only are searching for images that are posted with creative commons licensing; always link back to the photographer's image and photo stream when using a CC image

[|Discovery School's Free Clipart Gallery] Discovery School offers free clipart to teachers and students.

Citing Intellectual Property
[|The Son of a Citation Machine] This online tool allows users to select the citation format (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago) and enter the required information into data fields, which ultimately get spit out into beautiful citations. This takes some of the guesswork out of formatting works cited entries, as long as you enter the correct data in the correct data fields!

[|Easybib] Another citation tool--this site has a lot of ads, including one that loads as a video on the home page--annoying!