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Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety: Copyright and Fair Use

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Understanding Creative Commons

is a license that allows creators to maintain a copyright while allowing users the right to reuse, reproduce, and change software or files.  Watch these   videos on the Creative Commons site.

Creative Commons Symbols for Fair Use

Attribution means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit. 

Noncommercial icon Noncommercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works icon No Derivative Works means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike iconShare Alike means:
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Understanding Copyright

What is "Public Domain?"

Database of Images

Images for Fair Use