Leslie Whittington's List: Copyright, Fair Use, CC

• Step 1: Understand the rules of the Creative Commons.
  

  • These two videos give a pretty good description of what it is and why creative people like it.
• The presentation that follows, created by Jessica Coates, also gives an excellent description of how to use Creative Commons in the classroom. Because she has licensed the presentation with a CC-Attribution license, I am able to include her presentation in this blog post (or distribute it anywhere else on the Internet) - without worrying about Fair Use or other copyright restrictions - given that I attribute her as the author of the presentation. These were the terms that she decided upon when she created her license.
  
• Step 2: Use Creative Commons-licensed materials in my curriculum. There is a growing number of resources available online for finding Creative Commons-licensed materials. The list of directories maintained on the Creative Commons wiki, for example, is continually growing. To narrow the list down slightly, I'll list a few of my favorites here:
• Step 3: Reuse, remix, and share my Creative Commons-licensed curriculum materials.
• Step 4: Teach my students about Creative Commons while I also teach them about global collaboration, desktop publishing, why creativity is such an essential skill, and my core subject.
  

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• • Great descriptions of copyright, trademark and patent.
• What is Copyright?
• Here in the information age, virtually all intellectual creations can be protected by some form of intellectual property law. Intellectual property divides the universe of intellectual creations into three domains: copyrights, trademarks and patents. In a nutshell, copyright protects expression, trademark protects names, and patents protect ideas.

• Copyright protects creative expression that has been reduced to a tangible form, such as a book, piece of recorded music, computer program, screenplay, painting, photograph, or motion picture.

   

  Trademark protects brand names, literally marking items in trade. The idea behind trademark is to protect the consumer by giving them some confidence that items branded with a certain mark are authentic and come from where they purport to come from.

   

  Patent protects innovation. While you can't copyright an idea, you can patent one.

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• This site is dedicated to helping educators everywhere in   the United States understand the issue of copyright.

   

  As an educator, there are three main issues you need to understand.   They are: the Public Domain, Fair Use, and Intellectual Property.