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Great blog post with an interesting debate. Should teachers download videos to show in their classrooms when YouTube is blocked at their schools even though they are violating copyright?

Cute flash file that answers questions about copyright for students

This is a great copyright/fair use chart for teachers

Crash Course in Copyright...tons of information here, kinda scary!

With important groups such as ISTE, AASL and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills all calling upon schools to stress originality, imagination and creative production, the meaning of those terms along with related concepts such as synthesis, innovation

Here is a researched site that has the most current information on copyright in a digital age.

Great little flash video about what creative commons is all about.

Great resources here for teaching and learning about copyright in the 21st century.

This online tutorial is designed to assist faculty, staff, and students learn about the rights of a copyright owner and the legal exemptions that exist for educators, such as fair use. The tutorial was developed in three interactive modules and includes short videos, reference materials, case studies and a game.

Great resource about copyright, including multi-media.

This online tool helps you evaluate whether or not what you want to do is fair use or not. It provides a printable pdf at the end of the process of evaluation.

Site that will "stamp" the pictures you find and use from Flickr as to who owns them and what Creative Commons license they have. Check it out!

Great info here about primary sources.

YouTube's video and short quiz designed to help young people better understand use of intellectual property relating to re-posting and remixing. In the video, young pirate Russell copies a music video on his cell phone and posts in on YouTube. He is warned that he could loose his booty and get banned for life! The film goes on to discuss remixing, fair use, and the possibility of YouTube takedowns, with a small print approach to the legal-eze. It encourages the creation of original work. The tone is intentionally comic melodramatic, in 1950s instructional cartoon style.