Table of Contents Chapter one What Is Copyright Chapter two Public Domain Trademarks and Patents Chapter three Sharing with Creative Commons Chapter Four Choosing the License and Giving Credit Chapter Five Finding Creative Commons Materials for Your Class Projects Glossary find out more Index About the Authors 4 11 15 23 27 30 31 32 32
Chapter One What Is Copyright 4 C h a p t e r o n e W h a t I s C o p y r i g h t You’ve worked hard on a great slideshow presentation It has plenty of pictures When you post it to your class Web site your teacher says This is good work but you really shouldn’t use other people’s copyrighted materi als in your slides What does that mean Your teacher is reminding you that oops you used other people’s words videos audio recordings or images in your project Then you published their work with yours without asking their permission make sure you give credit to the creators if you use other people’s words or images in a project this book does take a look at page 2 after the title page
5 You probably found the information in books films Web sites or other sources Though you may not have copied their works directly you still need to give them credit What is copyright You may have seen words like copyright 2013 or 2013 in books on CD sleeves or in movie credits Copyright means that the person or organization that created the work gets to decide how it is used From the moment an article picture note poster podcast or video is created that work is automatically protected by U S and interna tional copyright law That gives the creators control over how their works are used by others The same is the copyright symbol lets you know that the words music images or other creations are protected
