Copyright

This week part of our lab was focused on Copyright and Creative Commons. I had never heard of Creative Commons before, but I think it's a fantastic idea! Of course some people don't want to share their photos or music, but some people are looking to collaborate with others. The fact that this is an option is great for many in the music industry. One of my favorite artists right now is Girl Talk, he is a guy who doesn't make his own music, but mash-ups of other songs. And then he puts entire albums on his website that we can download for free. I'm assuming since he's allowed to do this many of the songs he uses are protected under creative commons. I also think the idea of creative commons is pertinent to teachers, because often videos or pictures from the internet are used in classrooms. As an educator I should know my rights when I use information from the internet. If I want to use a map of Michigan in a geography lesson and show how Michigan became the shape it is, I can use this map under Creative Commons. Page URL:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michigan-territory-1836.png File URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Michigan-territory-1836.png Attribution: By Jengod (English Wikipedia) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), GFDL (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</a>), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons