K12Online2007 Conference Reflection #6

This conference presentation was

Obstacles to OpportunitiesCrossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age”

Karen Richardson

What were the main points made during this session, the “takeaways?”

Karen uses an interesting approach. Instead of having one long
video, she starts with an introductory video, and then points us to her
wiki that has other videos licensed under creative commons and uses
them as part of her presentation. She is using the sharing spirit of
creative commons to show us how it works, not just tell us. Excellent!

Eric Fadin’s video using only the words of Disney characters is ingeniously funny. It’s funny to hear copyrighted characters to talk about the unfairness of copyrighted laws. It is a concise and creative way to explain copyright law and fair use.

In terms of your own professional development, what did you gain from the session?

An excellent explanation of copyright, fair use, and creative
commons. I already use Creative Commons, but it was great to find more
sources of creative commons media.

What questions did you have after this presentation?
How do we get the word out to others who have not heard of Creative Commons?

How will you apply the learning to your professional situation?
I want to show my students to the disney video, and then discuss whether the author broke copyright laws. I will teach my students about CC, have them use CC sounds, images, and video, and give them the option to CC their own publishing.

What other resources (including reading material) are relevant to this session?
I explored some of the other links on the wiki. There is a LOT there.

Video: Presentation Introduction

Copyright, Fair Use and Public Domain: Introduction by Eric Faden

Hall Davidson’s Copyright Quiz at TechLearning.com
Davidson’s very detailed guide to traditional copyright
a chart of the guidelines
Wikimedia Commons
Internet Archive
Open Source Audio
OER Commons

• Yellowstone National Park has placed nearly 13,000 images in the public domain so they are available for use without permission.
• All the digital photos published on the National Archives website are in the public domain.
• The Library of Congress
  is a little harder as they don’t own copyright, but generally if the
  material was published before 1923, it is in the public domain. And,
  the Library of Congress just added over 3,000 photos to flickr, the
  photo sharing website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ Most have no known copyright restriction.
• Speaking of flickr, many of their photos have a creative commons license. You can search by license here: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
• Open Directory Listing of Public Domain Sites: http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Clip_Art/Public_Domain/
• Thirty Years of News from NBC: http://www.hotchalk.com/index_bhm.html
• The Fair Use Blog: http://fair-use.org/

del.icio.us / witchyrichy /Copyright

1. PDTool

2. MiT5: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence

3. Creative Commons

4. WHEN WORKS PASS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

5. U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use

6. U.S. Copyright Office

7. YouTube - Creative Commons - Wanna Work Together?

8. A Visit to Copyright Bay

9. Karen Richardson’s Professional Website

10. techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology Leaders

11. Copyright Tutorial for Kids

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