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 Copyright
Laws—Who's Really a Violator?
From
Kickstart News Review
Copyright
law is very well defined, despite the movement toward
downloading nearly anything and everything from the
Internet. The current copyright law document that is being
argued over and litigated liberally is the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
It makes it a crime to make or spread
technology that gets around copyright protection measures.
It doesn’t just prohibit copyright infringement, and it
increases the punishments for doing so on the Internet.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
fights for digital freedom and is against the DMCA. The
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
is a section of the United Nations and its web site has many
resources on copyright law. Educause (a nonprofit
association whose mission is to advance higher education by
promoting the intelligent use of information technology) has
a great site with DMCA resources.
MORE WEB
RESOURCES
Plagiarism &
Referencing Electronic Resources
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/research.htm#reference
CHEATING,
PLAGIARISM (AND OTHER QUESTIONABLE PRACTICES), THE INTERNET,
AND OTHER ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/plag.htm
Secondary School
Educators: Lessons on Plagiarism
http://712educators.about.com/cs/plagiarism/a/plagiarism.htm
Relationships
Between Copyright & Plagiarism
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Harris-Copyright.html
Electronic
Resources on Ethics and Digital Society
www.oswego.edu/oda.resources.html
Social Ethics in
the Digital Age
www.pt3.org/VQ/html/ohler.html
Plagiarism.Org
http://www.plagiarism.org/
Detecting,
Preventing, and Understanding Plagiarism
www.unc.edu/cit/guides/plagiarism
Finding Copyright
Free Images
Thanks to Hey Jude,
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/find-free-images-online-my-list/
Flickr Creative Commons
is a great place, but it's blocked at school.
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/100-legal-sources-for-free-stock-images
Bigfoto.com
offers pictures from around the world, including America,
Asia, Europe, Africa, and Pacific.
Clip Art for foreign/second language
instruction. Basic but
still valuable.
EveryStockPhoto
is a search engine for creative commons photos, located in
Vancouver, BC. They aim to be a community for designers,
developers, photographers and other media publishers who
want better, easier access to license-specific media on the
web. This is a single integrated search, allowing users to
bookmark their photos with private and public tags,
and increasingly we will be offering advanced
searching options, rating systems
and other tools.
FreeDigitalPhotos.net
has over 2000 free images that you can use in commercial and
noncommercial work. You are not allowed to sell,
redistribute, or claim these images as your own. You can
browse by category or search for exactly what you need.
FreeMediaGoo.com
has a large collection of images, audio, textures, and other
visual mediums that you can use for free with some
restrictions. You do not even have to credit the images. The
site also features some amazing digital images if you are
looking for something different.
FreeFoto.com
says it is the largest collection of free photographs on the
Internet (link back and attribution required).
FreePhotosBank.com
allows users to have non-exclusive, non-transferable license
to images. You can search for photos, see which photos are
the most popular, and which ones have the highest ratings or
the most downloads.
Fotogenika.net
has photos for free download for personal, educational, and
nonprofit use. The site is well organized, and it includes
categories such as architecture, animals, people, and
textures.
The Geo-Images Project
attempts to make images (mostly photographs) that are useful
in teaching geography more widely available. Navigate via
map points on the globe, and capture images around common
themes. Love the one on transport! and community is cool
too!
MorgueFile.com
offers stock photographs in high resolution digital. With
over 55,000 images, divided into several categories, they
are sure to have something you can use. The thumbnails are
small, but your search results display quickly, and the
photos are of top quality. (The term “morgue file”
is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file
that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been
used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and
teachers as well The purpose of this site is to provide free
image reference material for use in all creative pursuits.
This is the world wide web’s morgue file)
Pics4Learning
collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images
for use by students and teachers in an educational setting.
Lesson plans also included.
Stock Exchange
offers high quality images taken around the world by amateur
photographers. If you have an interest in photography, you
can even submit your own pictures. There are various
searching options and over 100,000 images. The photographers
establish the terms, so read the fine print, but most
pictures can be reused immediately.
TurboPhoto
provides free stock images from 10 categories all of which
are in the public domain.
UVic’s Language Teaching Library
consists of about 3000 images useful in the teaching of
basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. Its purpose is
to provide a set of those graphics most basic and useful for
low-level language-teaching, and at the same time, to make
them as easily searchable as possible. Transparent an matte
images included.
Riya
- Visual Search provides royalty free images.
Riya
contains images of
People
and
objects.
Each of these also contain subcategories.
Wikipedia: Public domain image sources
- though in this case you will need to check the copyright.
Yotophoto
is now indexing well over a quarter million Creative
Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other
‘copyleft’ images.
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A
Student & Teacher Information Code of Ethics
PLAGIARISM
"Plagiarism is using another person’s words or ideas without
giving credit to that other person."
When you use someone else’s words, you must put quotation
marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by
revealing the source in a citation. Even if you paraphrase
the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still
must give credit to the author. Not giving due credit
to the creator of an idea or writing is much like lying.”
(www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm)
Strategies to
Avoid Plagiarism
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Show
you have done the research |
BUT |
Write something original or new. |
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Use
the knowledge of experts and authorities |
BUT |
Improve on or disagree with their words |
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Improve your writing by imitating what you hear
and read |
BUT |
Use
your own words and your own "voice" |
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Give
credit where credit is due |
BUT |
Include your own ideas and thoughts |
You do
not have to cite information that is common knowledge.
How do you decide
if it is common knowledge?
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The
information can found in at least 5 other sources that
do not give a reference.
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Your readers
will already know the information.
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A person
could easily find the information in general sources.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
A Student & Teacher Information Code
of Ethics
adapted from David
Warlick, www.2¢Worth.com
Seek Truth and Express It
Be honest, fair, and courageous in
gathering, interpreting and expressing information for the
benefit of other s. For instance:
* Test the accuracy of
information from all sources and exercise care to avoid
inadvertent error.
* Always identify sources. The
consumers of your information product must be able to make
their own judgment of its value.
* Always question the sources’
motives.
* Never distort or
misrepresent the content of photos, videos, or other media
without explanation of intent and permission from the
information’s owner. Image enhancement for technical clarity
is permissible.
* Tell the story of the human
experience boldly, even when it is unpopular to do so.
* Examine your own cultural
values and avoid imposing those values on others.
* Avoid stereotyping by race,
gender, age, religion, ethnicity, geography, sexual
orientation, disability, physical appearance or social
status.
* Give voice to the voiceless;
official and unofficial sources of information can be
equally valid.
* Distinguish between opinion
and fact when expressing ideas.
Analysis and commentary should be
labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.
Minimize Harm
Treat information sources,
subjects, colleagues, and information consumers as human
beings deserving of respect.
* Gathering and expressing
information should never cause harm or threaten to be
harmful to any one person or group of people.
* Recognize that private
people in their private pursuits have a greater right to
control information about them than do others.
* Consider all possible
outcomes to the information you express, guarding against
potential harm to others.
* Never use information from
another person without proper citation and permission.
Be Accountable
Be accountable to your readers,
listeners, viewers and to each other.
* Clarify and explain information and
invite dialogue about your conduct as a communicator.
* Encourage the information consumer
to voice grievances about your information products.
* Admit mistakes and correct them
promptly.
* Expose unethical information
practices of others.
Respect Information and its
Infrastructure
Information, in the Information
Age, is property. Information is the fabric that defines
much of what we do from day to day, and this rich and potent
fabric is fragile.
* Never undertake any
action that has the potential to damage any part of this
information infrastructure. These actions include, but are
not limited to illegally hacking into a computer system,
launching or distributing viruses or other damaging
software, physically damaging or altering hardware or
software, or publishing information that you know is untrue
and potentially harmful.
* Report to proper
authorities any activities that could potentially result in
harm to the information infrastructure.
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