“Share your ideas” by tiachachat is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
You know when you see something really cool – a poster, infograph, music or artwork that just explains a concept really well and you just want to share it around? Before you do, stop and think, that will have a copyright. A great way to find resources that you can reuse are to search for ones that have creative common licences. Under this licence the creator still has copyright but has given permission to users to share the resource. There are different versions of the licence as detailed in the infographic below.
If you would like more details, Sara Hawkins (2014) explains Creative Commons in an easy to understand manner on her website here.
Using Creative Commons is a great way to share ideas and resources and possibly recreate/mix and share again. They provide a great platform for students and teachers to use, reuse and possibly modify works to build knowledge, staying within the copyright laws.
You can learn more about Creative Commons in Australia on my blog post ‘Wait, I can’t just copy that photo?’ (Silver, 2018).
References:
Foter. (n.d). Creative Commons: Free photos for bloggers – the ultimate guide. https://foter.com/blog/how-to-attribute-creative-commons-photos/
Hawkins, S. (2014). Creative Commons licenses explained in plain English. https://sarafhawkins.com/creative-commons-licenses-explained-plain-english/
Silver, T. (2018). Wait, I can’t just copy that photo?. Library learnings. https://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/learningawaits/2019/03/14/wait-i-cant-just-copy-that-photo/