Legal Issues
Goals and Objectives
- Analyze and discuss social and ethical issues related to the increased use of technology in education, business, and society.
- Navigate and research the World Wide Web for information, assess and document the validity and reliability of the information gathered.
- Watch the following screencast videos.
- Module introduction (3 min.)
There are FOUR items to take into consideration when using someone else’s media in your classroom, business, non-profit, etc.
- PUBLIC DOMAIN
- COPYRIGHT
- FAIR USE
- CREATIVE COMMONS **
Step 1: Review the resources below and take notes according to Activity 1 instructions.
Step 2: Open the LEGAL ISSUES CHECKPOINT below, after completing your notes for Learning Activity 1. Respond to the different scenarios and questions.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Public Domain (read the paragraph on PD)
COPYRIGHT
Intro to Copyright animation video (3:16)
Copyright Question & Answer-Ask a Student (click and reveal the answers to each question)
FAIR USE
A Fair(y) Use Tale (watch the video)
Fair Use – Four Factor Test (view the image)
CREATIVE COMMONS**
Creative Commons licenses help creators retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work, at least non-commercially. The CC License choser provides an easy way for creators to define the terms on which others may use their work.
Creative Commons-Wanna Work Together? watch the video (3:00)
Using the Creative Commons website
Filtering Licenses in Google, Flickr and Youtube (3:45)
Additional Resources for finding CC media:
9 Places to Find Creative Commons Media
Flickr Creative Commons
Various Creative Commons resources
Creative Commons Licenses
Information Set 2: GENERAL USE, FAIR USE, and COPYRIGHT VIOLATION
A resource being available on the Internet does not mean one can use it freely. Copyright, plagiarism and fair use are terms that every intellectual person, especially a college student, should be aware of. This module will give you an insight on these terms.
Step 1: Review the resources below and take notes according to Activity 1 instructions.
Step 2: Open the LEGAL ISSUES CHECKPOINT below, after completing your notes for Learning Activity 1. Respond to the different scenarios and questions.
Watch these videos.
Copyright Foundations
Digital Citizenship on Copyright – Animation
For your additional learning: Locate a self-paced course on Copyright and work through the various pages necessary, until you are confident you have grasped the legal issues.
Example: Copyright: Self-Paced Study
Reading(s)
CITING MEDIA
You will be adding various media (images, video, audio) to your projects this semester. Most of the media you will not own. If your media falls under Fair Use or Creative Commons (CC) then you will need to cite or reference where you retrieved the media. Cite your media the way the CC licenses says to.
Format: Use the format below to cite any media that you use, including your property.
- Images: [John F. Kennedy portrait] TopNews.in. Retrieved 11/5/10 from http://topnews.in/files/john-f-kennedy111.jpg.
- Video: [CBS Announces JFK’s Death] Youtube. Retrieved 11/5/10 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CjWbemTNcw&feature=related.
- Audio: [Ask not audio] Soundboard. Retrieved 11/5/10 from http://www.soundboard.com/sb/John_F_Kennedy_JFK.aspx.
- Text from website: [Abraham Lincoln quote] Brainyquote. Retrieved 3.22/16 from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin143183.html
NOTES: Your website does not come under Fair Use because it is public. You must cite who the media belongs to, and where applicable the permission you have been given.
- If the media that you are using belongs to you, then make sure to cite that “All media (or identify which media) on this page belongs to the author of this website”.
- If the images on your site are owned by the software you are using, then you have permission to use them on your site. Simply cite that “All media (or identify which media) is owned by [name of software].”
- If you are given media with permission to use it, cite both “owned and permission given by …”
- For CC media that you are using, add the CC license to the end of your citation, the way CC license says to. For example, “… is licensed under CC BY 3.0.”
Note: Click here to view the CC licenses. Each one has their CC BY … and License Deed, which is where you find the number such as 3.0 for Attribution license (the rest are 4.0). There is also an image you may copy/save to use where needed.
Additional examples:
- Creative Commons: [Rubber Band Ball] Sarah Macmillan. flickr. Retrieved 2/7/14 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/essjay/4264852657/. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Remixed with frisbee image.
- Creative Commons: [Powerful Image] Norm Hanson for Photofriday. flickr. Retrieved 5/24/17 from URL Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, unmodified original image used.
- Your Property: [grapefruit] created by author of this presentation/website.
- Your Property: All images on this page created by author of this website (or your name).
- Software Media: All media (or identify which media) is owned by Weebly.
After learning about the CREATIVE COMMONS as a resource for finding media you have permission to use, with some or no rights reserved, apply your searching skills to finding media for your website or college studies.
Step 1: There are SIX difference Creative Commons licenses. View the different Creative Commons licenses. Use this guide for searching the different licenses.
Step 2: Use the resources below to find a piece of media (video, image, audio) licensed under each of the Creative Commons licenses (6 total). You will have to do some hunting but you can find one of each. You can also use other resources if you are able to locate them on the Internet.
Step 3: List the media you found for each of the 6 Creative commons licenses, and the link to the piece of media you found with that attribute.
Step 3: List the media you found for each of the 6 Creative commons licenses, on a Word document containing a 3-column TABLE with the following column headers:
- Column 1: Creative Commons License Type AND Definition
- Column 2: URL to an example, and which search resource you used [Google, Flickr, YouTube, etc.]
- Column 3: Thumb-Nail Image of the Photo or Graphic (or screen shot of music player, for music).
Example of how to format Word document:
Learn-U Support | Learn-U
Step 4: Submit your answers in this Creative Commons Assignment (link above). Attach your Word document to this assignment, by using the Attach File option.
Finding CREATIVE COMMONS media:
Locating Creative Commons licenses in Google, Flickr and YouTube
9 Places to Find Creative Commons Media
Flickr Creative Commons
Various Creative Commons resources
NOTE: When searching images at image.google.com, click on the Search tools button to filter by Creative Commons licenses. They use different language but the meaning is the same. The Search tools don’t have a search option for ShareAlike (SA).
- Labeled for reuse with modification (CC BY)
- Labeled for reuse (CC BY-ND)
- Labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification (CC BY-NC)
- Labeled for noncommercial use (CC BY-NC-ND)