Prof Lawrence Lessig is one of North America’s leading academics and widely known in the global Internet community as a vocal proponent of reduced legal restrictions on digital copyright, and a champion of notions of ‘fair use’ and ‘free culture’. In this discussion recorded at Nethui 2011 he talks to CORE Education's Director of eLearning Derek Wenmoth about creative commons and copyright in the classroom.
Professor Lawrence Lessig: Copyright and creative commons
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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Creative Commons and filtering of web content
I think Prof Lawrence Lessig's idea of the ability to filter the results of Google (or other) searches according to reusability is an excellent one. Particularly for school students, and for the general public also. If I knew what I could reuse for non-commercial purposes, academic research, class projects, etc. that would make it so much easier to stay within the law and terms of use. One thought, while Creative Commons might clearly state the conditions of reuse, enforcement across different jurisdictions might be problematic. I seem to recall some discussion about international arbitration at NetHui 2011 but can't recall the detail.
Sourcing cc images
Google Advanced image search does give you the option to only search for images labelled for reuse but I do think that this should be one of the filters on the main search results page to make this more obvious. We have been trying to get students to use images from only creative commons sources in our online ESOL school but it has proven quite complicated to get this concept across with their limited understanding of English. Interestingly, we tried to then get the first language support person to explain in their native tongue and she didn't get the concept herself. So many adults working in education don't have a good handle on this themselves and don't model this behaviour for kids.
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