Creative Commons is an important tool for copyright and fair use
Teaching copyright and fair use to journalism students is part and parcel of the work we do as advisers.
Creative Commons is a useful tool for communicating and creating what rights an owner allows a user. This simple tool empowers both the owner (which is sometimes advisers and student journalists) and the user (which is sometimes advisers and student journalists).
As a teacher who runs a student news website and creates on-line course materials, I’ve created the following checklist to help me in times of question.
As a journalism adviser, I need to teach my students their options as well, as many of them are docilely adding content without considering what rights they have over things they create.
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Michelle,
Your checklist recommends Freeplay Music as an “allowable source” for digital content. But I encourage you to read carefully the terms of use for that site before endorsing it as you have. While it certainly allows students to use music for *some* purposes (like school broadcasts), it’s a pretty restrictive license–especially in its exclusion of web & podcast use. Just saying: you might want to temper your blanket endorsement.
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