So what is Creative Commons? Its something to do with Copyright

right?

Do I care... Surely I wouldn’t get caught!

http://www.copyright.org.nz/owners.php

So what are the rules for us in education in NZ?

There are no general exemptions from copyright law for education purposes. The Copyright Act specifies certain circumstances where all, or a substantial part, of a copyright work may be used for education without copyright owner permission.

Certain educational institutions, such as non-profit schools, universities andpolytechnics, are allowed to copy from original literary, dramatic, musical orartistic works and published editions for educational purposes as follows:Copyright Council of New Zealandwww.copyright.org.nz2• One copy of the whole or part of a work may be copied by a teacher forinstructional purposes. Only one copy can be made on any one occasion.Such copying is solely to assist the teacher in preparing and giving a lesson.Teachers can not make the copy available for students to copy themselves.• Multiple copies may be made of up to 3% or 3 pages of a work (whichever isgreater) as long as no more than 50% of a work is copied (for example, no morethan half of a poem, short story or newspaper article may be copied). Artisticworks may not be copied under this provision unless they are copied as part ofthe literary, dramatic or musical work being copied.• No charges can be made for supplying copies to students.• No copying is allowed from the same work within 14 days.

So where does that leave us when using creative works of others?At Tiniroto the students co-constructed a basic set of rules to help us use the sounds, images and recordings we wanted to.

•You must have purchased (paid money) for the source, it cant be a borrowed or ‘pirated’ recording•You must acknowledge the source•You must ask permission where possible•Make your own (sounds & images) when possible•You can’t use it to make money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3BrAQl3so

Pretty restricting isn’t it? Creative Commons allows us to use, alter and be creative with others works.

This simplicity distinguishes Creative Commons from an all rights reserved copyright. Creative Commons was invented to create a more flexible copyright model, replacing "all rights reserved" with "some rights reserved."

http://www.copyright.org.nz/index.php

http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/

http://ictucan.wikispaces.com/

This is a wiki made by Professor Jane Nichols of Otago University. It is an open wiki so you can contribute any favourite sites that you use while making the most of what others have contributed.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Nothing worse when you have found the perfect thing but your computer wont read or see it!

Download at: http://switch.en.softonic.com/

Here’s a way to cut pieces out of pictures and superimpose onto other pictures.