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Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Res

In this post, educator Darren Draper uses video clips to explain the different types of copyright resources that are available under the Creative Commons. He also lists a number of sources for images, sound and video.

This is a nice resource for information on copyright education.

Main sections include: Copyright and Fair Use, The TEACH Act, Academic Traditions in Intellectual Property, Protecting your Intellectual Property, Using Other People's Property, and a Conclusion (sidebar)

Article by Cory Doctorow

"Larry Lessig, the Net's most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture."

Steven Anderson's amazing creative commons and copyright resource... every district should have one!

Very comprehensive look at copyright with great examples of how this affects those working in the creative arts.

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft (Mostly!) Images and Sound for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

Infographic that shows how the law works for pictures.

Nice Flickr search tool to search images under Creative Commons licenses

an image search engine that returns images licensed under the Creative Commons.(no copyright violations) It is straightforward and extremely easy to use.

Asked to assess their students' performance on nine specific writing skills, teachers tended to rate their students "good" or "fair" as opposed to "excellent" or "very good." Students received the best ratings on their ability to "effectively organize and structure writing assignments" and their ability to "understand and consider multiple viewpoints on a particular topic or issue." Teachers gave students the lowest ratings when it comes to "navigating issues of fair use and copyright in composition" and "reading and digesting long or complicated texts."