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Creative Commons – lets share that creativity!

 

Share your ideas“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.

‘Creative Commons: free photos for bloggers – the ultimate guide by Foter.com’ by Foter is licenced under CC-BY-SA 3.0

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/

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Wait, I can’t just copy that photo?

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Rubén Menárguez via Unsplash

Creative Commons

We all know about referencing and rightfully acknowledging the work of others in writing and ideas, but did you know that right of ownership extends to images as well?
So, in answer to your question you probably can’t just copy that picture and paste it into your work – it may belong to somebody else, so you had better check out the copyright on it first.

I knew to search for copyright free images, but I was unaware that it was called creative commons and it was polite protocol to caption creative common pictures/artworks with the author and source. On deeper thinking of the subject it only seems fair to acknowledge somebody’s work, even if they have given permission for you to freely use it for personal or commercial purposes. Plus, by giving a caption you are also allowing other people to access the source of the graphic.

There are different types of creative commons. To learn more about creative commons, visit the Creative Commons Australia website at https://creativecommons.org.au/learn or Core Education’s blog on legally using images at http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2018/05/hey-lets-be-careful-out-there-how-to-legally-reuse-images-from-the-internet.html

References:

Core Education. (2018). Hey, let’s be careful out there – How to legally reuse images from the internet. Retrieved from http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2018/05/hey-lets-be-careful-out-there-how-to-legally-reuse-images-from-the-internet.html

Creative Commons Australia. (n.d.). Learn about CC. Retrieved from https://creativecommons.org.au/learn/

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