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Something for Nothing - Introduction to Creative Commons

Guidance and Information

Guidance and reading for teachers who may want to produce and publish their own content

• TES article for teachers discussing who owns the rights to resources created by teachers and schools
• Stephen Fry on copyright
• BBC news story relating to schools and copyright infringement
• Shapes of Time -many resources sourced by Marshall Mateer NEN consultant
• Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
• BBC news story - UK has the 'worst copyright laws'
• Teaching Copyright (US based teaching resource)
• ICT4LT (extensive and maintained list of copyright links and resources)
• Young people, music and the internet: a guide for parents and teachers about digital music at home, at school and on the go Publication from Childnet, links to pdf

Tools

Does my Licence cover this title? The Copyright Licensing Agency

A very useful online tool to check whether books and texts you own can be reproduced under your current licence.

Organisations

• Guide to copyright in schools
• Licensing organisations
• Table of examples where license

Becta guidance and links

Creative Commons

Sources of Free-to-Use Resources

Images

NEN Gallery

Royalty-free Illustrations and Photographs

Creative Commons Search

Creative Commons Google image search tool

Clip art for schools

The Wirral Learning Grid

12 Places to Find Free Images for Your Website

How to make more effective searches for images free to use.

Music

Jamendo

Audio Networks

Video

British Pathe

Other

30 Places to find Creative Commons resources (multimedia)