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Digital Ethics and Creative Commons
This document provides guidance on using photos in blogs while complying with copyright law and attribution standards. It covers fair use basics, explains how to search for photos with Creative Commons licenses on Flickr, and recommends displaying photos large on blogs when appropriate, citing the examples of The Boston Globe's Big Picture photoblog. The document encourages properly attributing and linking back to the original sources of any reused or remixed content.
Digital Ethics and Creative Commons
- 1. Photos on Blogs:Fair Use and Effective Use Seth C. Lewis University of Texas at Austin sethlewis.org
- 2. Objectives Fair UseCover basics on copyright law Understand Creative Commons licensing Effective Use Where can you find free photos for your blog? How best to display photos on your blog?
- 3. For photos, text,whatever —>
- 4. Copyright basics Whatis copyright? Protection for “original works of authorship” in just about any artistic, creative or intellectual form, both for published and unpublished works. Why should you care? Don’t get sued Don’t get accused of plagiarism Don’t ruin your reputation
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- 6. Protecting Yourself 101Give credit. Always. Link back to original material. Follow the Golden Rule Do unto others’ creative works as you would have them do unto yours.
- 7. Creative Commons Videointro to Creative Commons
- 8. More on CreativeCommons A simple slideshow on CC basics for photos Lawrence Lessig discusses CC Here and here
- 9. From Fair Useto Effective Use
- 10. Finding Photos UsingFlickr (from here ) go to Flickr's advanced search page and enter your search criteria (such as Barack Obama). Scroll down to the bottom of the search page and check the box that says "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos. ” Ask yourself: Is it copyrighted? Does Flickr user have rights to image? Is it genuine? Etc. Be good: link and leave a comment ( example ) Using other sites (go here )
- 11. Using Photos BIG,BIG, BIG ... (where appropriate) Best example: Boston Globe’s Big Picture Others: take cues from the many news photoblogs
- 12. p.s. This slideshowis free to share and remix! (just attribute, please)