Getting our Feet wet with Copyright
The students in the Lector Book Club are getting ready for their final projects. Can you believe it? I know I can’t. Their assignment is to define the Millennial Generation, presenting their interpretation through a visual medium (video, website, or ppt) that will be published to the web through the Lector site. One of the biggest challenges that faces us when we embark on such a task is copyright.
You may be thinking, “but it’s for education, so it doesn’t matter.” Or, “Copyright – that’s for books, isn’t it?” Or maybe you’re not sure what to think about copyright or why it’s so important to this situation.
Whatever camp you reside in, know that copyright is indeed an essential piece to the puzzle when publishing to the web. These projects will be leaving the perceived safety of the academic environment and entering a public blogspace that is accessible to the world. In the coming week, I will be working with the students of Lector to gather their information and media resources for the projects, and we will be talking a lot about copyright.
The good news is that we’re not the first to have done so. In considering copyright (at Penn State), here are some of my favorite go-to sources for information and media resources.
Information About Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons Licenses
– Check out the section on Creative Commons
Scholarly Communications Services on Copyright
– Check out the links to the four factors tests in the Fair Use section
Media Resources
Media Commons Free Media Library
Happy creating! And look for more posts on this topic soon!
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