1. Have you ever… Wanted to use a photo from the internet in a classroom handout but didn’t know if it was covered under fair use? Had a student who wanted to use music in his/her project for your class but didn’t know if it was copyrighted? Had a student who wanted to share his/her work on the internet but didn’t know how to go about the legalities?

2. Rob Fioretta’s brief guide to the basics of This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

3. What is Creative Commons?  Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses, depending on the one chosen, restrict only certain rights (or none) of the work.non-profit organizationcreativeCreative Commons licenses -Wikipedia 9-27-07Wikipedia 9-27-07

4. What does this mean to you?  Copyright ©  All Rights Reserved

5. How to recognize CC.  Some Rights Reserved This work is BY whom? This simply means if you use this work, you must attribute credit to the creator. NC stands for noncommercial. Meaning you cannot make money from this work.

6. Examples of CC work. Music Video Ever Colour by Sleeperspaceborn Photos Cyclamen, after the rain by Caro’s Lines

7. How to find CC works. Toronto Sky Line by Antkriz

8. How to find CC works.  flickr.com flickr.com 我在這裡喲 by Hao Jan

9. How to find CC works.

10. How to CC your work.  creativecommons.org creativecommons.org Some Rights Reserved

11. Other thing you should know.  This isn’t just for educators.  Can be used for private works.  Can be used for commercial works.  Not just for art. Education, Science, and Software are a few other main areas of CC focus.  Very in depth subject, questions should be directed to creativecommons.org.

12. Resources  creativecommons.org creativecommons.org  flickr.com (photos) flickr.com  ccmixter.org (music) ccmixter.org  google.com (advance search/usage rights) google.com  search.yahoo.com/cc (yahoo’s cc search option) search.yahoo.com/cc

13. References  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons  http://www.copyrightauthority.com/copyright-symbol/ http://www.copyrightauthority.com/copyright-symbol/  http://www.creativecommons.org http://www.creativecommons.org  http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=45920231&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=45920231&size=l  http://one.revver.com/watch/89072/flv http://one.revver.com/watch/89072/flv  http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=86397324&size=l http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=86397324&size=l  http://www.flickr.com/photos/haoz/1483850072/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/haoz/1483850072/