Monday, April 27, 2009

One final thing: Copyright and Creative Commons

Anyone who uses the works of another needs to be aware of and respect copyright. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making it easier to legally share, remix and reuse creative works. Instead of "All Rights Reserved" it's "Some Rights Reserved". Creative Commons was founded in 2001 with the support of the Center for the Public Domain. In 2008 there existed an estimated 130 million works licensed under the Creative Commons. This is a great service for people who would like to build on the creativity of others in order to create an entirely new work. To find works available simply go to the Creative Commons website. Firefox has included Creative Commons into it's search engine. I found out just this week that there is now a new copyright symbol associated with Creative Commons - a double c in a circle. I currently show my students a power point presentation on copyright. I need to add another slide to this presentation that covers Creative Commons.

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