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Google receives more than 250,000 requests to take down URLs accused of copyright infringement each week. In the past month, Google has received 1.2 million requests from 1,000 copyright owners to remove pages from 24,000 websites from its search results.
This may just be the best TED Talk video I've seen: listen.com/Rhapsody founder and extremely funny person (and soon-to-be debut science fiction author) Rob Reid examines the math behind the claims made by the copyright lobby and explains the mindbending awesomeness of the sums used to justify SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the like. Here's Ars Technica's Ken Fisher discussing Reid's philosophy:
The virtual pinboard site creates code that lets any Web site opt-out of being "pinned."
Explore thousands of images from DK’s picture library. Perfect for illustrating homework, school projects and generally being creative.
Whether it’s the professor who creates Twitter backchannels in his courses, the admissions counselor who uses Facebook to engage prospective students, or the librarian who tweets about available resources in the library, higher education professionals have come up with a variety of creative ways to use social media both in and outside of the classroom.
I wish I could say that teaching students about copyright is easy, because in a world where digital tools are making creating and sharing content easier than ever, understanding copyright is incredibly important. But intellectual property law is exceedingly complex, making even a nominal introduction to the ideas surrounding copyright -- copyright law, fair use, the public domain -- a challenge.
Many musicians choose to release their songs under Creative Commons licenses, which give you the legal right to do things like use their music in your videos.
ImageStamper is a free tool for keeping dated, independently verified copies of license conditions associated with creative commons images. You can use it to safeguard your use of free images from license changes, or to prove you are the original image creator.
Many students’ first instinct might be to head to Google’s image search and use the first image that they see, but it is important for all of us to make sure we are following all laws and protecting the rights of others. This includes learning about and following through with attributions and acknowledgements of the source of an image when required.
"Have you ever wondered how to download and share digital content legally? How do you let people know that you want them to reuse your own work? Creative Commons licences can help you do both. We'll show you how. To find out more about Creative Commons in New Zealand visit us at creativecommons.org.nz "
Stanford University's explanation of copyright and fair use in the United States.
Search for copies of your page on the web. Defend your site with a free plagiarism warning banner!
Blogger and activist Cory Doctorow argues that all new media – from sheet music to cable TV – is accused of piracy by the mainstream ... until it becomes the mainstream
In a world where social media users, bloggers and even some professional journalists are increasingly comfortable simply copying the work of others and republishing it, can intellectual property rights survive? Can original content survive? And what should the world do when an amateur photographer takes a newsworthy photo and shares it on a social network?
This page lists resources for high-quality public domain photographs. For each resource here, I tell you what you’ll find and give you tips for using the photos. What kind of tips, you ask, if the photos are public domain? Aren’t they free of all use restrictions? Good question! And the answer is ... yeah, mostly.
To Find an image on Internet you need to begin your search with an appropriate site, which can not only search images quickly, but with a great ease. The image search experience has gone through many changes in past, and certainly the user experience has brought some pleasant outcomes while searching photos online.
Instructional Design and Development of Written and Interactive Content:
Kognito Interactive (Kognito is owned and managed by Baruch alumni)
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. with numbers
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
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