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Are You Copyright Savvy?

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Do you know the copyright guidelines for using digitized media resources? There are a wide range of technologies available to gather and prepare media elements: scanners, Internet sites, digital still cameras, software that allows translating video/music/sound from analog to digital, capturing digital movies, and digitizing voice or music.

Before using any resource, check out copyright and fair use laws, and guidelines for citation of resources. There are ethical considerations as well as legal liabilities in using intellectual property that belongs to someone else. Just because it is on the web and CAN be downloaded doesn't make it yours any more than scanning or digitizing images or music gives you usage rights.

Creative Commons has a great search engine categorized by copyright type for audio, images, video and text resources. This site also provides guidance and tutorials on how to select a creative copyright for your online published material that lets others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work. (Click here)

Copyright Quiz: How well can you interpret copyright laws? For fun you might want to take Hall Davidson's copyright quiz.(Click Here)

Samples Workshop Permission Forms: If you are leading a digital storytelling workshop or working with other groups, be sure that you have all participants sign permission slips that also ask them to vouch for clearing any copyrights in their digital stories. Download Workshop Permission Form. Download Student Permission Form.

Education FairUse Guidelines: Teachers and students will also want to check out Hall Davidson's website (Click Here ) for a PDF summary chart of the fair use guidelines for classrooms. Invest time as you go in documenting any information sources you use so that you will be ready to develop the credits screens at the end of your story.

FairUse Resources: Review Stanford's University Libraries (Click Here ) where you will find an extensive web resource of copyright, fair use and intellectual property topics related to text and digital media.

Tech4Learning's Citation Maker: Create a citation formatted in either APA or MLA style for all media. Exports to a variety of file formats. (Click Here)

Warlick's Citation Machine: Use David Warlick's online interactive web tool for easy formatting style and organizing of citations for all types of resources. (Click Here)

Warlick's Copyright Guidelines: Read David Warlick's review of using information as a raw material for constructing new and unique information products by first addressing the intellectual property ownership rights. (Click Here )

Warlick's Permission Forms: Use David Warlick's online easy-to-use forms for getting formal permission to legally use copyrighted materials. (Click Here )

Spectrum of Rights Comic Book defines the various possibilities for artists and users between full copyright and public domain. (Click Here)




Are You Copyright Savvy? OverView Do you know the copyright guidelines for using digitized media resources? There are a wide range of technologies available to gather and prepare media elements: scanners, Internet sites, digital still cameras, software that allows translating video/music/sound from analog to digital, capturing digital movies, and digitizing voice or music. Before using any resource, check out copyright and fair use laws, and guidelines for citation of resources. There are ethical considerations as well as legal liabilities in using intellectual property that belongs to someone else. Just because it is on the web and CAN be downloaded doesn't make it yours any more than scanning or digitizing images or music gives you usage rights. Copyright Web Sites Creative Commons has a great search engine categorized by copyright type for audio, images, video and text resources. This site also provides guidance and tutorials on how to select a creative copyright for your online published material that lets others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work. (Click here) Copyright Quiz: How well can you interpret copyright laws? For fun you might want to take Hall Davidson's copyright quiz.(Click Here) Samples Workshop Permission Forms: If you are leading a digital storytelling workshop or working with other groups, be sure that you have all participants sign permission slips that also ask them to vouch for clearing any copyrights in their digital stories. Download Workshop Permission Form. Download Student Permission Form. Education FairUse Guidelines: Teachers and students will also want to check out Hall Davidson's website (Click Here ) for a PDF summary chart of the fair use guidelines for classrooms. Invest time as you go in documenting any information sources you use so that you will be ready to develop the credits screens at the end of your story. FairUse Resources: Review Stanford's University Libraries (Click Here ) where you will find an extensive web resource of copyright, fair use and intellectual property topics related to text and digital media. Tech4Learning's Citation Maker: Create a citation formatted in either APA or MLA style for all media. Exports to a variety of file formats. (Click Here) Warlick's Citation Machine: Use David Warlick's online interactive web tool for easy formatting style and organizing of citations for all types of resources. (Click Here) Warlick's Copyright Guidelines: Read David Warlick's review of using information as a raw material for constructing new and unique information products by first addressing the intellectual property ownership rights. (Click Here ) Warlick's Permission Forms: Use David Warlick's online easy-to-use forms for getting formal permission to legally use copyrighted materials. (Click Here ) Spectrum of Rights Comic Book defines the various possibilities for artists and users between full copyright and public domain. (Click Here)