The 7th session Creative Commons sharing and promoting your work online

We had our 7th professional online identities project session tonight, Creative Commons sharing and promoting your work online (more info) by Silvia session and Own-It.. The students were really keen to have this copyright /IPR advice, really important for their professional practice, see more about the 1st session Introduction into digital copyright .

Here are some useful links I've collected and came across over the years:

• Copyright Issues:

This group aims to bring together debate and support around all the copyright developments and issues relevant to digital literacies UAL practice. Please tag related post with copyright issues.

And some Choice content and links:

• Some useful CC links: http://process.arts.ac.uk/category/tags/creative-commons
• Creative Commons licences explained: http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/creative-commons-licences-explained
• The Case for Appropriation: Rob Storr: http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/case-appropriation-rob-storr
• Joy Garnett, "Painting Mass Media": http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/joy-garnett-painting-mass-media
   
• Xpert tool

This is a brilliant tool, creative commons media search, the returned results are all embed with the Creative commons attribution information in the found content, you can also upload your own images.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/

• tldrlegal.com

Lookup open source licenses summarized & explained in plain English:

http://www.tldrlegal.com

 

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