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'All Right to Copy?' is a resource designed to teach students about copyright, and how it impacts them as both users and creators.

Proposed new law in Canada will remove 'fair rights' usage for much online material.

Copyright in NSW Governemnt Schools

Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE

"On this day of great celebrations worldwide, we also invite to celebrate the impressive wealth of knowledge, information and beauty that today, like every year on this day, becomes freely available to humankind. Every year on New Year's Day, in fact, due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of works enter the public domain - that is, their content is no longer owned or controlled by anyone, but it rather becomes a common treasure, available for anyone to freely use for any purpose."

Interesting website that lists what copyright works enter the public domain each year. Leon Trotsky has just been added to the list.

From the Make Use Of site here are links to five websites that have copyright free photos that you can use for personal use though each have conditions or requirements attached to them. The fifth site is Flickr.

Post about some College professors who created and delivered a 3 credit-hour online course with no programmers using free Google Apps technologies - and kept control of the copyright. This includes 12 steps they took.

A good number of tips. Areas covered: Pinterest Basics; How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic; How to Add the "Pin It" Button to Posts; Pinterest Copyright Issues; Further Reading

Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.

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Open content licensing for educators is a free online workshop designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses.