How does traditional copyright law apply todigital forms of expression? How can educators teach with media (YouTube, digital images) within legal guidelines? This dialogue is shaping by the minute. New alternatives to copyright, like Creative Commons, are emerging. This is a page to share resources relevant to this conversation and keep us all plugged in.

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TEACH Toolkit - Copyright Information
The Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act) is now law. TEACH updates copyright law pertaining to transmissions of performances and displays of copyrighted materials. Such transmissions are critical to current higher education distance education efforts, including online courses.


Creative Commons - What is Creative Commons? It is an innovative approach to copyright that gives creators an option for licensing their work. Work licensed under a Creative Commons license still holds the traditional "copyright" rights; however, a work with a Creative Commons license also indicates that the creator has extended more flexible sharing rights. For more information, please refer to the sites below.

Creative Commons
A tax-exempt charitable corporation crafting new copyright options ("some rights reserved").

ccSearch
Search for Creative Commons licensed media.

ccLearn
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers."

cc Podcasting Legal Guide
A general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting.

Center for Social Media
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Fair Use FAQs for Online Video

The Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance
Designed for academic institutions, this guide helps answer questions ranging from basic copyright law to the more complex topics of ILL and e-reserves.

Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright
Brief tutorial from the US Copyright Office for teachers and students.

Sierra College Resources on Copyright (LRC)
http://lrc.sierracollege.edu/library/copyright.htmlLinks to copyright resources located on the Sierra College LRC webpage.