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Creative Commons, Images and multimedia

I was at the SLASA conference on Monday where I presented a session on creative commons and the use of images and multimedia tips.  It was certainly a large audience and it was a pity that there was no hands but it was a great group and certainly got lots of us talking and thinking about rights of people and work - espeically digital.

The 3 golden rules that came out of the Creative Commons session was - label everything, limit use ot only what is needed and link if possible to the original.

The Creative Commons website was a big help for me to put this session together BUT the Smartcopying website is the bible and is brilliant as it has supportive material for educators and you can even ask specific questions and have them answered.

For many of us working and using Creative Commons material, attribution is one of the hardest parts of the whole process.  Adding and remember to add the credit to the creator (s), title of work, url, type of license and copyright notice does and can impact on the overall image.  FlickrCC helps us do this by havng an inbuild editor and also attaches the attribution.  Other Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Firefox Advanced search support finding CC material but still leave the attribution up to the person who is re-using the works.

Over the session we did a lot and had a lot of discussion on how digital materials will or may already impact on a library. 

All in all thanks to all the library staff in SA who attended and hope that from the 3 people out of 150 that new about Creative Commons prior to this session take away with them a range of ideas and know a little more about the license and where to gather further support and information.

Tags: creative commons  multimedia  training  images 
Posted at 01:11PM Sep 16, 2009 by Kate Venning |  Comments[0]