Thing #23 - Creative Commons

I really enjoyed the creativity of the Disney Video clip "A Fair(y) Use Tale". It looks like that probably took a long, long time to edit all of those scenes into a piece of work as a teaching tool about Creative Commons. Speaking of which, Creative Commons gives us the freedom and right to use copyrighted work as long as we don't take credit away from an original author or creator of a product. We are allowed to use said work under 3 conditions:

1. Attribute - give credit to the original copyright author or creator

2. Noncommercial use - we can't sell or profit from the work

3. Share alike - we may alter, transform, add to , copy, and distribute as long as it is marked with a (cc) mark.

I think this is a wonderful tool for Librarians and Teachers alike b/c we are always worried about breaking copyright laws and Creative Commons gives us a way to work with the copyright laws without breaking them.

By the way . . .

The Disney video clip by itself is an example of Creative Commons the way that actual Disney movies were duplicated, altered, transformed, and edited to create a teaching tool.