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Takes the magic out of copyright by: Helping you find out if a work is covered by U.S. copyright, Calculating its terms of protection, and Collecting and publishing the results (as a PDF) to save for your records or further vet with a copyright specialist

This tool allows the user to input information about the purpose, nature, amount, and market effect of a use. It will then graphically display the information in a way that makes it clear when a use of a copyrighted work might be fair and when it is not.

" Comic Book on Copyright and Fair Use."

Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons' flexible copyright licenses. Here are some:

Great tool to search for copyright free images, videos, audio, etc. to download to use in projects. Great resource for teachers and students.

A great guide which explains how to use and attribute  i,ages from a variety of cc sources.

Witty Comics is a cool website. It allows its users to create two characters dialogues. This is a great learning tool for students. They love cartoons and comics and are much more inclined to learn via dialogues and interactive  play roles. Teachers can use Witty Comics to create dialogues underlining the target structures they want to teach  and let students act them out. Students can on their part use Witty Comics to create thier own  dialogues and rehearse them in front of their peers. Witty Comics is a good tool to foster students communicative skills and enhance their creative powers. Witty Comics is free of charge and is very easy to use. It has a simple platform that any one can handle , the only thing you need to do is to register with them and start making comics straight away. Pre-drawn background scenes and characters are already provided and students will only select the ones they want to feature in their comics.   You might also like: 8 Reasons Why you should Create A Blog for your Class 10 Must Have Resources to Teach about Copyright and Fair Use Snip.ly :Snip and Share Your Favorite Parts of Webpages A Great List of 70+ iPad Apps for Teachers and Students LinkWithin   

"VidToMP3 is a brand new site that allows you to download YouTube videos and the audio from non-copyrighted video clips on video sites! We support all of your favorites: MySpace, YouTube, Vimeo, Google video and many more. Remember to bookmark our Video to Sound converter for all your vid to MP3 and YouTube to MP3 needs! We offer free file conversions from YouTube to MP3. Please review and abide by our terms of service. "

"collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. Lesson plans also included."

"though in this case you will need to check the copyright."

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"About this site Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. We make good use of the flickr™ API, but aren't affiliated with flickr."

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education"

G you might find this useful for your course if you've not already seen it.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.

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The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer."