CreativeCommons_and_Copyright

=Creative Commons and Media Use=

Overview:
This week's topic is copyright and Creative Commons. After this module, hopefully you realize that using media off the Internet is not as clear cut as we thought. One resource, however, that helps simplify copyright is called Creative Commons.

Objectives:

 * 1) To understand the basics of copyright law including Fair Use and how it might apply to education
 * 2) To understand what Creative Commons is, how it works, and what it means for copyright issues.
 * 3) To locate and properly use media that are registered with Creative Commons.
 * 4) To learn how to apply Creative Commons Licenses to our own works.

__The More You Know:__ Learn about copyright law as it pertains to education. Specifically pay attention to what is called "Fair Use" doctrine and consider when and how it might apply to various educational activities. Here are a few questions to ponder as you read/listen:
 * 1) Why is copyright considered important in the first place?
 * 2) What basic rights do copyright cover?
 * 3) What is fair use and how does it apply to education?
 * 4) What are some of the recommendations for dealing with copyright issues?

**Readings/Podcast**
Teaching Copyright by the EFF has a curriculum set up for teachers to use with their students. It is also an excellent way for anyone else to learn about Copyright and Fair Use, which is the primary means by which teachers and others can share/use copyrighted content. At some point you should go through all 4 lessons they have created. At this point, you should specifically read the Notes for the Educator and Additional Context of the following two lessons: Definitions of Copyright: What Do They Know? and Fair Use: Remix Culture, Mashups, and Copyright In addition, read over their Copyright FAQ and Fair Use FAQ

If you'd rather listen to a lesson on copyright and fair use, check out the podcast from the Real Deal on CNET news here.

//Optional Readings:// (access only available to MSU students logged into Angel, otherwise if you have an ISTE membership you can access from their website).

Thompson, K. A. (2005). Copyright 101. //Learning & Leading with Technology, 32//(7), 10-12. Click [|here] to view the article.

Johnson, D. & Simpson, C. (2005). Are you the copy cop? Why copyright violations happen in school and how to prevent them. //Learning & Leading with// //Technology, 32//(7), 14-20. Click [|here] to view the article.

Langran, E., Langran, R., & Bull, G. (2005). Copyright law and technology. //Learning & Leading with Technology, 32//(7), 24-26. Click [|here] to view the article.

Creative Commons
A new way to share. From their website: "Creative Commons is a **nonprofit** corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide **free** licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof."

The Creative Commons Website has several videos and comics that are geared toward younger audiences that we might use in our classroom.

Explore the following resources:
 * 1) Wanna Work Together
 * 2) Get Creative
 * 3) Sharing Creative Works Comic (slide show)
 * 4) How it Works Comic (4 page--hit the next bottom on each page)

__Searching Creative Commons__ Now that you have a better idea of what Creative Commons is, let's see what it is like to search for media that is licensed under Creative Commons. One option is to use Creative Commons own search features. If you are using Firefox as your web browser, CC search is built in. Watch this video to see how [|CC search works in Firefox].

If you do not use Firefox, you can still access the Creative Commons Search by accessing its web page directly (@http://search.creativecommons.org/).

Some prefer a site called FlickrCC for its specific search features to find CC images directly from Flickr. Take some time to check it out.

__Using CC Licensed Works__ //Using the photo:// Depending on your blog or website, when inserting an image you may have the choice to use the link to the photo on the web, or most often it wants to upload a photo from your computer. To download a photo from a web site, usually you can right click or control click on the image to bring up a context menu, one of the choices should be to Download Image As. . . or Save Image As. . . .; choose this option and save it somewhere you find convenient. Now when you go to insert an image, you can click browser, find the photo on your computer you just downloaded, and upload into your browser.

//Citing the Photo:// Once you've located a work you want to use, you need to make sure you cite it properly. Here is a list of requirements for CC itself, but other sites, like Flickr, may also have requirements of their own. Below is an example of what a proper citation might look like. Notice that if you click on the image itself, it takes you to the full Flickr page with information about the image (different than if you click on the farm1.static.flickr.com link below the image). This is to fulfill the Flickr requirements. Here is a Jing video that shows you how to recreate the citation.

Photo Attribution: Original image: "Stadium" @http://farm1.static.flickr.com/217/521366700_bb7fd309d1_m.jpg by: Joe Freidhoff

Released under an Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License []

**A simpler citation for Flickr:**
Look on right side column for: Additional Information (this is on the original flickr page not a specific size of the photo). Here you can mouse over the symbols to see which license it is under or you can click the link which brings you to a page with more info on rights plus there is a spot there with code you can copy and paste as html into your blog to give proper credit (you may have to choose to switch into html mode in your blog or insert source code).

Linked page with html: This link pointed to may not always show. A good indicator how to license is by abbreviating the main words in between "Attribution" and 2.0(3.0) Generic, so that the above license reads: CC -NC-SA photo by whoever. If its just Attribution 2.0 Generic, you would list it simply as a CC photo, No Derivatives would be CC -ND, etc.

You can also use a simpler method of linking to CC photos by providing a link to the Flickr author's picture page like this:

[|CC by-sa licensed photo by gcasperson]

The ways in which Flickr links to Creative Commons license changes from time to time as well so the above way of finding the license may vary somewhat and require you to explore the page a little.

Working with Your Own Photos
When you can, it's often a great idea to you use images that you have taken. There are several photo hosting sites that have become quite popular. These sites often provide free server space for your images (up to a certain amount). Of the three listed below, only Flickr and Picasa allow users to easily apply Creative Commons licenses to images automatically once you set preferences/settings. Spend some time looking through each of the sites. Each has various options to upload mobile pictures from your phone as well.
 * 1) Flickr
 * 2) 7 Things You Should Know About Flickr - from Educause
 * 3) Flickr Tour
 * 4) Newbie's Guide to Flickr
 * 5) [|PicasaWeb] (a Google service)
 * 6) [|Photobucket]