Copyright Friendly / Creative Commons /Fair Use Resources
— per a tweet from Jackie Gerstein (@jackiegerstein)
— by @joycevalenza MT sdst.libguides.com/content.php?pi… HT @mtechman
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For Immediate Release
Tue, 09/04/2012 – 12:55
Excerpt:
Washington, D.C.— As the digital environment continues to develop rapidly, school librarians and K-12 educators face challenging issues concerning copyright-protected print and online materials at schools and outside of the traditional educational environment. When asked to make copyright decisions, uncertain librarians and educators tend to take more conservative copyright positions than necessary for fear of liability.
Today, the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) released the book “Complete Copyright for K–12 Librarians and Educators” to help librarians and teachers understand copyright law. The book teaches school librarians and educators how to fully exercise rights such as fair use while making decisions that are both lawful and best serve the learning community.
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Some items re: Creative Commons
10 resources for copyright and royalty free media — from Tech Savvy Educator by Ben Rimes
Free Learning: Essays on open educational resources and copyright — by Stephen Downes | National Research Council Canada
From DSC:
Thanks Stephen for this collection of essays, postings, resources, materials.
After reading the first several sections, I feel compelled to add here that I have not accepted any money for my Learning Ecosystems blog; the work I do on this blog is given freely (and this is often very appropriate…as I often curate content from many other sources).
I don’t know if I’ll be able to continue to do this, but I have chosen to post those items that I believe are going to be helpful to others and/or further a conversation or idea or perspective — but have done so free of charge. I have not been paid to post anything on this Learning Ecosystems blog.
Anyway, thanks again Stephen for your work and for your worthy goals.
The Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to co-lead learning resources framework initiative — from aepweb.org
Organizations are first to craft industry-specific metadata framework for improving Internet search results
WASHINGTON, DC (June 7, 2011)—The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) and Creative Commons (CC) today announced a partnership to improve search results on the World Wide Web through the creation of a metadata framework specifically for learning resources. This work is being underwritten with grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
— Originally saw this item at Liz Dwyer’s posting at good.is
YouTube editor meets Creative Commons — from JISC Digital Media by Steve Hull
Creative Common Videos now on YouTube — from Educational Technology by David Andrade
Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) — creativecommons.org
The Copyright Rebellion — from The Chronicle
New lawsuits and policies have hobbled teaching and research. Now scholars are pushing back.
Chronicle illustration by Bob McGrath
The digital age was supposed to put information at our fingertips. Books and data and images on an Internet browser would be just a click away.
Instead, scholars are being denied access to millions of books. Images are not being distributed. Two major universities face lawsuits by book and video publishers for using digital copies in courses. And the U.S. Congress has placed behind the wall of copyright many items that used to be in the public domain.
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Senate passes patent office reforms –from TheStreet.com
BOSTON (TheStreet) — The most comprehensive overhaul of U.S. patent law since the 1950s was approved by the U.S. Senate last week.
The America Invents Act, approved by a 95-5 vote, is intended to minimize the 700,000-application backlog faced by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, deter the diversion of its revenue to other government agencies and establish a system that grants patents to the first person to file an application, rather than having to determine who was first to produce a product.
From DSC:
I’m hopeful that this will encourage innovations within the world of educational technologies and better support educational entrepreneurship.
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Brief summary/notes from DSC:
Per Kevin Kelly (Feb 2011), the future is about 6 verbs:
- immediacy
- personalization
- authentication
- findability
- embodiment
- interpretation
- accessibility
- attention
Originally from — and see:
10 online resources for free, legal music — from Mashable.com by Brenna Ehrlich
Copyright and Fair Use Issues in Online Education — Faculty Focus
eLearning predictions for 2011 and beyond — from Web Courseworks.com by Jon Aleckson
Excerpts:
This summer I attended the 2010 Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Some very interesting topics came up in the facilitated Think Tanks, and I wanted to share some of the predictions that were developed from these active group discussions regarding where eLearning will go in the next ten years.
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Below you will find a table that summarizes the different opportunities and challenges that were predicted to arise in the next ten years by the participants in the conference Think Tanks and by [Jon Aleckson].
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