A presentation given to HS students about copyright, fair use, Creative Commons licensing, Public Domain, Academic Honesty and ethics

1. or:
Can I use that thing I found on the internet?
John Iglar • September 2015 • CC-BY-SA
COPYRIGHT, FAIR USE, OPEN LICENSES
AND ACADEMIC HONESTY

2. • A legal concept
• Protects the creator of a piece of work
• Restricts what others can do with that
work
• Preserves the right of the creator (or
legal rights-holder) to decide how to
sell, distribute, etc that work
• Laws exist in every country, including
Ethiopia
• International treaties apply copyright
laws across national borders
COPYRIGHT
by Mr. Barraud, Flickr, used under public domain

3. • Legal concept that allows people to
use works protected by copyright
under certain conditions
• There are four concepts which define:
• the nature of the use of the
protected work (is it
transformative?)
• the nature of the protected work
(is it factual or creative?)
• how much of the work has been
used
• how this use might affect the
commercial potential of the
protected work
FAIR USE
by Succo, Pixabay, used under CC0 license

4. EXAMPLES
• A student quotes from a book protected by copyright
Randall Munroe, XKCD, used under CC-BY-NC license

5. EXAMPLES
• A student uses a piece of music as background soundtrack to his creative film
Screenshot of TotalBiscuit’s YouTube video, used under fair use

6. • These are licenses that protect the
work but give you permission to re-use
under certain conditions
• Key phrase: “some rights reserved”
• Different types:
• Attribution
• No derivatives
• Non-commercial
• Share-alike
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
by Foter, used under CC-BY-SA license

7. • These works may be freely used by anyone,
without restriction
• Some are older works for which the copyright
laws have expired (Examples: Shakespeare,
Rembrandt, Mozart)
• Some are works put into the public domain by
their creator
• Creative Commons has a CC0 (public domain)
license
• Useful fact: any work created by US
government employees as part of their job is
automatically put into the public domain (eg
NASA images, military band music)
• Unfortunate truth: a music composition may be
in the public domain (eg Mozart), but a
recorded performance is protected by
copyright
PUBLIC DOMAIN
by Public Domain Pictures, Pixabay, used under CC0 license

8. • A student must always cite sources,
even for public domain works
• otherwise, the implication is that
it’s your work
• Creative Commons requires attribution
in all uses
ACADEMIC HONESTY
by US National Archives, Flickr, used under public domain

9. • What is right? What is wrong?
• What is commonly done?
• What kind of person do you
want to be and be seen to be?
• What choices do you make?
ETHICAL USE
by Pascal, Flickr, used under public domain license

10. WHERE CAN I FIND FREELY LICENSED WORKS?
• Check out my “Remixing” course on eLearning (under “Tech Learning”)
• Go to search.creativecommons.org and use their search tool
• Some of my favorite sources for images:
• Pixabay (all CC0/public domain)
• Flickr (advance search for CC or public domain)
• Wikimedia Commons (various open licenses – also other media)
• Some of my favorite sources for music:
• Jamendo (CC licenses)
• Free Music Archive (CC and some public domain)
• CCMixter (CC licensed)
• Musopen (all public domain – also sheet music) by diamonjohn, OpenClipArt, used under
CC0 (public domain) license

11. This work by John Iglar is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License.