Thing #23

This is certainly a new twist on the subject of copyright that we cover every year in staff development ~ creative commons !!! I had never heard of this so I found it quite interesting a presented in a neat, upbeat manner that certainly held my attention. It is defintely a new wave of sharing information that we will need to be aware of so our kids can use it correctly and without fear of violation of any laws. I think it would be especially useful in art, photography and journalism classes where ideas are conceived from other works, but modified and expanded in a personal way to make way for even more works and materials. Below is a political use of this Creative Common law being used in signs being distributed over the web and in other ways as long as it follows the guidelines designated.



Photo Project
Timothy Vollmer, January 9th, 2008


Photo by Jodi Sperber / CC BY-ND

The New York Times has reignited its Polling Place Photo Project, a “nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encourages voters to capture, post and share photographs of this year’s primaries, caucuses and general election.” All participant photos are published under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives license. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author.