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This is a good advice paper on copyright and digital images. It's part of a growing collection of useful material on the JISC Digital Media web site.

A new, general overview of copyright from JISC Digital Media

Useful resource on copyright, regularly updated

A nice interactive tool explaining the key copyright issues around using particular resource types.

This calculator is designed to help users and organisations understand the level of copyright risk when publishing Open Educational Resources

The first in a series of little guides from JISC Digital Media. Also includes topics such as screencasting and finding digital resources.

"The guide was produced by WISE KIDS for the Welsh Assembly Government. The guide covers: Illegal and Inappropriate content Plagiarism and Copyright Cyberbullying Firewalls and Security Messenger, Social Networking, Trust, Responsibility and Privacy Online Online Grooming or Inappropriate Contact Reporting Abuse"

The Guardian is taking stock of the new battlegrounds for the internet. From states stifling dissent to the new cyberwar front line, we look at the challenges facing the dream of an open internet Day four: IP wars Intellectual property, from copyrights to patents, have been an internet battlefield from the start. We look at what Sopa, Pipa and Acta really mean, and explain how this battle is not over. Plus, Clay Shirky will be discussing the issues in a live Q&A

Basic introductory information from the government Intellectual Property Office

What Makes YouTube Unique - Basic facts and figures (40 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 1,Slides Lesson 1 Detecting Lies - (35 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 2, Slides Lesson 2 Safety Mode - (5 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 3, Slides Lesson 3 Online Reputation and Cyberbullying - (45 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 4, Slides Lesson 4 Policy - The Community Guidelines (20 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 5, Slides Lesson 5 Reporting content - Flagging (20 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 6, Slides Lesson 6 Privacy part 1 - (40 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 7, Slides Lesson 7 Privacy part 2 - (50 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 8, Slides Lesson 8 Copyright - (40 mins) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 9, Slides Lesson 9 Additional resources/Appendix including parent resources - Teacher's Guide Additional Materials, Slides Additional Materials

Plagiarism is using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. The World Wide Web has become a more popular source of information for student papers, and many questions have arisen about how to avoid plagiarizing these sources.

royalty-free music

Description of presentation from academic seminar series on digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights.

The free Creative Commons licenses can encourage the sharing of teaching and learning resources. 

A briefing paper from the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), detailing the steps you need to take to license a piece of content using Creative Commons

This animation explains the basic intellectual property rights issues associated with using content you've found on the Web for teaching.

Portal to collection of OERs to support research students, teachers and others to develop Digital Literacies, online academic identity etc. The material that you can access through this website is intended to help you prepare yourself for study on a research degree at a UK university.

Thanks Rosemary - this is a really useful site and covers many of the areas we've been looking at :)

The material that you can access through this website is intended to help you develop your use of digital technologies in your university studies.