Intellectual Property Rights

 

Copyright, Fair Use, and Rights as Creators

Avoiding Plagiarism

• A Quick Guide to Plagiarism – This 8-minute video created by Cape Fear Community College (Wilmington, NC) covers the basics of what constitutes plagiarism.

• BibMe – BibMe is an automated citation creator and bibliography generator that can save you loads of time building and formatting your references. Here’s a 90-second video introduction to show you how simple BibMe makes it to cite your sources.

Creative Commons Basics

• Wanna Work Together? (Video) – From Creative Commons

• A Shared Culture (Video) – Also from Creative Commons.

• Creative Commons License Types – More from Creative Commons.

• Google Advanced Search – A quick way to do Google searches more effectively.

• How to Do a Reverse Image Search (Video) – Ask the Gooru

• Public Domain 101 (Video) – Explains usage rights for Public Domain content.

Copyright Basics

• Copyright and Plagiarism Compared (Video) – From California high school librarian Jane Lofton.

Fair Use Introduction

• Creative Commons options for sharing original works – including your own student-created content.

• Google form version of the reasoning – This form from Kristin Hokanson is a great organizer to help you build an argument for fair use. 

• A Fair(y) Tale  – This video remix from Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society is a great example of what “transformativeness” looks like.