February 1997

The innovative nonprofit organization Creative Commons turns the process around, making the concept of protecting and sharing work online not onerous, but positive.

The alternative is to label educational objects located all over the Internet with a set of shared attributes and allow them all to be accessed through a customized search engine.

there are many businesses that realize that times are changing and they had better start thinking of ways to adapt and take advantage of the new opportunities.

John Seely Brown has said that, rather than operating an economy based on presumptions of scarcity, we need to build economies based on presumptions of abundance.

The Internet will continue to eat away at the logic of the distribution businesses.

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education outlines five principles, each with limitations: Educators can, under some circumstances: 1. Make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works, and use them and keep them for educational use. 2. Create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded. 3. Share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded. Learners can, under some circumstances: 4. Use copyrighted works in creating new material. 5. Distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformativeness standard.

The Code, video and other curriculum materials for educators are available at http://centerforsocialmedia.org/medialiteracy and can also be found at http://mediaeducationlab.com/.