1. Martha E. Hardy martha.hardy@metrostate.edu
Jennifer DeJonghe jennifer.dejonghe@metrostate.edu
November 10, 2010
http://www.slideshare.net/mhardy/copyright‐or‐copyleft‐creative‐commons
COPYRIGHT OR COPYLEFT: CREATIVE COMMONS AND OTHER
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Copyright Resources
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Teaching Copyright:
http://www.teachingcopyright.org/ (Classroom curriculum)
• Library of Congress: Copyright and Primary Sources:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/selfdirected/copyright/Copy
right.html (Online learning module for teachers)
• Library of Congress: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/ (online tutorial for students)
• Landmark for Schools Student Request for Permission Template:
http://www.landmark-project.com/permission_student.php
• Cornell University: Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States:
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
Creative Commons & Related Concepts
• What is Copyleft? GNU Project, Free Software Foundation:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
• Creative Commons [official site]: http://creativecommons.org/
• A Shared Culture, Creative Commons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko
• Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons:
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/11/cory-doctorow-creative-
commons.html
• 7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons, EDUCAUSE:
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutCreat/156826
• Open Knowledge Definition: http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/
Search Engines
• Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/
• Google Advanced Search: http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Search for Images
• Flickr: Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ and The
Commons: http://www.flickr.com/commons (use Advanced Search)
• Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Some images
have Creative Commons licenses, some are public domain)
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• CompFight: http://www.compfight.com/ (Turn Creative Commons option on)
• Google Images: http://www.google.com/imghp (use Advanced Image Search, under
Usage Rights, select labeled for reuse)
Image Collections
• Flickr: The Commons: http://www.flickr.com/commons (Includes copyright free
images from dozens of museums, libraries and government institutions)
• Minnesota Reflections: http://www.mndigital.org/reflections/ (Some may be under
copyright, but are allowed for educational use
Video & Multimedia
• Internet Archive: Community Video:
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies
• Blip.tv: http://blip.tv/ Users assign their own licensing
• Ourmedia: http://www.ourmedia.org/ Also includes podcasts
• Revver: http://revver.com/
• Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• SpinXpress: http://spinxpress.com
Audio
• ccMixter Music Discovery: http://dig.ccmixter.org/ (All audio files have CC licenses)
• Internet Archive: Community Audio:
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
• Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com
• Owl Music Search: http://www.owlmusicsearch.com/
• Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/ (sounds, not songs)
• Smithsonian Folkways: http://www.folkways.si.edu/ (Copyrighted streaming audio
that may linked to for educational purposes with proper attribution)
Books
• IntraText Digital Library: http://www.intratext.com/
• O’Reilly Open Books: http://oreilly.com/openbook/
• Creative Commons: Books: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Books
• Internet Archive: Community Texts: http://www.archive.org/details/opensource
• Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page (Books in the public
domain because copyrights have expired)
Citation Management Tools
• Easy Bib: http://www.easybib.com/
• Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/ (Firefox extension)