Copyright+Matters

Copyright Matters ===== In order to avoid legal issues with copyright you can't just hop onto Google and search images or music for whatever you want. You need to search items that are considered "Public Domain." These are licensed for your use. The people who created them or took the photo are generously willing to share their work with you.

**Finding digital images which are free to use:**

 * If you use [|Google to search for images], use advanced search options and select “labeled for reuse”.
 * Use [|Flickr’s advance search] and select “Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content”.
 * Use the [|Advanced Image Search in Yahoo] to find Creative Commons Licensed content.

**Search Engines**

 * Google’s Advanced Image Search – Search for images labeled for reuse
 * Yahoo’s Advanced Image Search - Creative Commons Licensed content
 * Flickr’s Advanced Search – Search for images within Creative Commons-licensed content
 * [|FlickrCC Blue Mountains] -Find photos on flickr released under the Creative Commons license.
 * [|FlickrStorm] - Another way to search Flickr, select Creative Common license from pull-down menu first
 * Behold - Search engine for Creative Commons Images
 * Cyclo.ps - Search engine that searches the popular free image engines and provides one-stop shopping
 * Veezzle – Wonderful free stock photo search engine
 * Creative Commons - A tool that searches a variety of creative commons attributions.
 * Wylio - Designed for bloggers

**Pathfinder**

 * Only2Clicks (CWalter) - Visual Pathfinder for Creative Commons

==**Try searching these sites for** **Free to use Images or Copyleft Sites** ==
 * Ookaboo - Creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work.
 * Free Photo Bank – Easy way to find Creative common images
 * Classroom Clipart – Free clipart images. Browse by category.
 * School Clip Art - Great site for free school clip art.
 * FreePhoto – Free stock photography for teachers or students if they cite the image.Contains thousands of nice quality images
 * Pics4learning - Free images intended for teacher and student use. Many pictures in different categories
 * Free Stock Photos – Download stock photographs for absolutely free use in any website or publications – personal or commercial
 * Public Domain Photos - Images that are cleared for use without attribution
 * Wikimedia - Complex advanced site with images, sounds and video – search in top left.
 * [|Image Chef] – create your own images for your blogs.
 * [|Fodey – Newspaper Clipping Generator] and more…
 * Creative Commons:
 * Photos8:
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**Creating Custom Images**

 * Image Chef – Create your own images for your blog.
 * Fodey – Newspaper Clipping Generator and more
 * Odosketch - Online sketch pad for drawing. The site works well with touch and interactive screens.
 * Image After - A collection of images and textures for use and alteration.

Below there are four jpeg files (black, blue, red and white). You can right click and “save as” if you need a blank slide to insert into your photostory presentation at any point. Consider using a coloured background to make slides with lots of type stand out more such as title and credit pages.
 * BLANK COLOURED SLIDES**



Finding Copyright Free Music Sites
There are multiple layers of copyright on recorded music. The composer owns the score, the musician owns the performance, and the publisher owns the recording. If you simply wish to play music in the classroom for an audience primarily consisting of other students, this use of the music is permitted under the copyright act as “in furtherance of an education object”. However, if you wish to modify the music, play clips of the music and adapt the music by attaching it as a file to a presentation or video, you need to use music which is licensed for this purpose.

Music

 * [|Jamendo] – Royalty Free music downloads. Search for music to use in projects.
 * [|Free Music Archive]
 * [|Opsound] – Copyright friendly sound “Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.” click on //genres//
 * [|Open Music Search] - Find Copyleft, Creative Commons, Open Source, and Public Domain works.
 * [|CCMixter] - A tool for mixing music and sound. Download clips of music to insert into your Photostory or podcasting projects.
 * [|Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects from Partners In Rhyme]
 * [|Music Loops]
 * [|Incompetech Creative Industries] - Search by genre and/or emotional moods. By default, they are licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
 * [|Free Music Loops] - from MediaCollege.com
 * [|Creative Commons] Music
 * [|Instrumental Music for Film and Video]
 * [|IB Audio] - Royalty Free Music, Stock Music
 * [|Free Online Music] – a list of free music downloads
 * Copyright free Music sites - A pathfinder created by Joyce Valenza
 * MusOpen – Free music, mostly classical

 Sound Effects

 * [|Free Sound Effects] - from MediaCollege.com
 * [|Sound Effects Sound Clips] – from Hark.com
 * [|Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects from Partners In Rhyme]
 * [|Free Sound Effects and Loops] – Free sound effects and music loops .wav files for download

**Make your own**

 * [|JamStudio]
 * [|Soundation]
 * [|Aviary Music Creator]

**Digitize if:**

 * The image is your own creation such as a photograph or a drawing.
 * The image is in public domain; for example, a “stop” sign or the “Mona Lisa.”

**You need permission to digitize and/or manipulate the image if:**

 * The image you want to use is from a printed source (and not in public domain) such as a book or magazine.
 * The image is an original photograph.
 * You found the image on the internet. Much content on the internet is already infringing copyright and the fact that someone else has used an image (with or without permission) does not mean that you may also. However, you may use free clip art.

Obtaining Permission
Use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes, is often simple and straight-forward to obtain. A letter sent to the publisher or author of the work will typically result in the granting of permission for the use of the material. Please include the following information when making a request for permission:
 * Name of the author or editor of the work.
 * Title of the materials to be reproduced.
 * Exact materials to be used including the appropriate details from the following: page numbers, chapter headings, quotations, URL, diagrams, images or other materials you wish to use.
 * A description of the proposed use for the materials (use in a photo story, use in a graduation or farewell PowerPoint presentation, etc).
 * Whether the material will be sold or will result in financial gain.
 * Details on the individual making the request including your name, return address, telephone number, fax number, email.
 * Date of the request.

= What will you create? =