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License » Use our **free** tools to inform people how they can reuse and share your creative works. = = [|Creative Commons Search] = = [|From Rodd Luciers The Clever Sheep Tuesday, November 18, 2008]

[|14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons] One of the most powerful, misunderstood and under-utilized tools for teaching 21st century skills, is the [|Creative Commons]. Besides providing access to hundreds of thousands of media works that can be used to augment the creative process, the [|Creative Commons] offers a legitimate way for students to license their own creative works, be they audio, video, text or hybrid products.

[|Creative Commons International Licenses] [|Creative Commons Content Directory]
 * 2 Creative Commons Toolkits**

[|Flickr]: a place to host and license photo collections [|Blip.tv]: a place to host and license video productions
 * 2 Great Places to Host and License Your Creative Work**

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 * 2 Video Explanations of The Creative Commons**

[|CC Mixter]: audio remix and share resource [|Sound Transit]: a Global sounds cooperative
 * 2 Creative Commons Audio Sources**

Open Thinking Wiki: Alec Couros'Digital Resources Collection [|M.I.T. Open Courseware] : free lecture notes, exams and videos from M.I.T.
 * 2 of My Favourite Open Source Projects**

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 * 2 Slideshow Explanations for Education**
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 * 2 Creative Commons Social Networks**

[|Better than Stealing]
Posted by [|Chris] on May 9, 2009 The Internet has made it easier than ever to find virtually any digital resource we might want. The ability to locate, download and use a piece of music, a passage of text, a video or a photo for our own use is so trivially easy to do that in the excitement of knowing we CAN do it, we sometimes overlook the question of whether we SHOULD do it. The idea of the Internet as a place where things are freely shared has become so much a part of our thinking that we sometimes believe we have a right to reuse whatever resources we happen to find online. One of the casualties of this cavalier approach to sharing can be a loss of respect for the intellectual property of others. In a world where everything appears to be so freely available, it is easy to overlook the fact that someone, somewhere, owns these resources. We tend to rationalise our use of them, reasoning that if people put them on the Internet they must be willing to share them. And that’s not always true. Some people do not want you to take their work without asking. On the other hand, some people ARE prepared to share their work. There are many who would be thrilled to think that someone wanted to look at their pictures, listen to their music or read their writing. The problem is that we don’t always know the author’s intentions. It would be nice to be able to tell, clearly and unambiguously, what the terms and conditions are for using their work. This is precisely what Creative Commons sets out to do. Creative Commons is a set of conditions that clearly outlines the terms under which an author will allow their work to be used. All CC licences require attribution, or some acknowledgment of the author, usually with a link back to the original work. They provide a distinction between commercial and non-commercial uses, allowing the author to choose whether they will allow someone else to use their work to make money or not. CC licences also provide options for whether the work must be used exactly as is, whether it can be edited, adapted and remixed, and can also stipulate that a work must be shared under the same conditions as it was made available. Applying a CC license to your work is easy. The Creative Commons website, found at [|www.creativecommons.org], provides a couple of [|simple questions] to define the conditions under which author is prepared to publish their work, and then generates badges, computer-readable code and an [|easy-to-understand license document]. It’s a very simple process that will help make it much clearer to anyone who wishes to use the works exactly what they are legally able to do with them. The huge benefit for educators is the removal of the many barriers created by traditional copyright. Teachers are able to locate thousands of CC digital resources that can be freely used with students without worrying about violating copyright or interpreting the often vague “fair dealing” law. These digital resources can be used, remixed and, most importantly, republished back to the web, all without fear of a copyright violation since the terms of use are clearly and explicitly stated upfront. Of course, not every resource will be available under a Creative Commons license, so students still need to be taught about traditional copyright and the responsibilities that accompany it. If suitable resources are not available under CC, and permission cannot be sought for its use, then all the usual copyright restrictions still apply. However, Creative Commons offers a viable alternative for the legitimate remixing of digital media, while providing an excellent environment in which to frame discussions with students about the legal and ethical responsibilities of being a good digital citizen.

//This article was written for, and recently published in, Australian Teacher Magazine// This entry was posted on May 9, 2009 at 6:51 pm and is filed under [|Digital Law], [|Kids and Learning]. Tagged: [|cc], [|copyright], [|creativecommons], [|digiethics]. You can follow any responses to this entry through the [|RSS 2.0] feed. You can leave a response, or [|trackback] from your own site.