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This sight can help you understand copyright law and fair use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes. A lot of the information and media on the World Wide Web is copyrighted. It is important for students and teachers to not infringe on copyright in the name of creating presentations or lessons for schools.

Copyright Friendly links to music and sound that students can use. This link comes from a list of CopyFriendly resources, but I wanted to link this one in particular because I know how easy it is to forget about the copyright rules when using music and sound.

Joyce Valenza's LibGuide to Copyright-Friendly resources, such as Creative Commons images, free music, info about fair use, etc..

Larry Lessig is a lawyer and activist for sensible intellectual property law for the digital age. He was a founding board member of Creative Commons, an organization that builds better copyright practices through principles established first by the open-source software community.

This is a quick video that explains what Creative Commons provides. Copy right is a controversial topic on the web and creative commons provides an outlet for like-minded creative types to share their stuff. I think it is a good topic to address with students.

Creative commons is where an individual can go to create a copyright friendly license for their social media tools. For example i have create one for my classroom website