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This is good information! AI has really opened up a lot of opportunities and resources, but it has also presented a lot of questions!

This is good information regarding the use of generative AI. I concur with the author that AI-created information should be used as a starting point for developing instructional materials. It should not remove the instructional designer from the process. After all, they would be most knowledgeable about the instructional needs of their learners and the delivery methods available to them.

Thanks for sharing this resource. It's super helpful for a project I'm working on right now.

Copyright infringement, Music, Race and Genre

Leaving this here for anyone interested in country music, copyright infringement in the music industry, and the Lady A controversy.

"But we are regretful and embarrassed to say that we did not take into account the associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the Civil War, which includes slavery," Ummm. Exactly how could they be unaware? Ugh.

Creative Commons is a way of protecting the rights to your work as you share it online. It's an alternate to traditional copyright, and it has a variety of options (including remixing) for permissions/use. Flickr makes use of CC licenses, as do many repositories. Totally worth checking out.

This, among other things, is taking our very restrictive concept of ownership to a much more productive and logical level, especially in this age of global knowledge. Many praises for CC.

I was curious about the Frank Ocean-tweet-T-shirt anecdote the Ahmed article this week referenced. Here's an article with more detail if you were also curious.

This has definitely happened before... I know Lizzo is one the artists that actually gave the user credit for the snippet she used for one of her songs.

As we learn more about usage rights and copyrighting, I was thinking that I need a master list of sites I can go to when I want to use images, audio and videos that are public domain. Here is a list of some creative commons websites

calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.

Thanks for sharing this tool! One of my biggest frustrations with e-books is the lack of compatibility with different readers. I would also like to find a better way to "share" a good e-book with friends and colleagues (like a hardcopy book) without having time limitations or additional fees for another download. Any suggestions that work and stay within fair use of copyrighted materials?

As a person who crafts and post their personal work on the web, I appreciate the focus on copyright and personal intellectual property information shared in this article. It is a mazing how many people and businesses "borrow" ideas from others without giving credit.

This article focuses on how college students evaluate information on social media. It also included an investigation of whether students use social media for their coursework and which tools they prefer. Finally, the authors surveyed students regarding metaliteracy topics, such ast their knowledge of copyright & fair use and privacy. Overall, the study found that students are moderately aware of and concerned with the credibility and accuracy of information, but are far more concerned with privacy issues. Understanding of legal issues associated with the re-use of information was rather low, and even less knowledge of cyber crimes.

How to provide proper attribution for openly licensed works on social media

Influencer B.Simone Plagiarizes Work of Blogger's in Her Book,

I knew someone who was a run-of-the-mill blogger (audience of 300 or so) who had another blogger start to copy her blog, post for post. It was creepy. I can't recall how it all ended -- was about 15 years ago.

Wow how awful!