A guide produced for teachers who want to use images and other media found online on made by them in PowerPoints and other teaching resources.

1. Copyright and Creative
Commons for Teachers
How to get legal resources for your
PowerPoints and other teaching
materials

2. This is NOT
legal advice!

3. Advice by Dominik Lukes
for teachers creating content
based on years of experience of
dealing with content and following
discussions about copyright and
licensing

4. What is free of
copyright?

5. Everything has a
copyright

6. What is copyright?

7. Right to control how your
work is copied,
distributed, modified or
reused.

8. How can I use
copyrighted content?

9. Permission
Exemption
License

10. Exemption for Print
Disabilities

11. Make accessible copies for
someone with a print
disability.

12. Made Load2Learn possible
but has many restrictions

13. Can I copy 10% of
anything for
educational purposes?

14. No!

15. Schools must buy a CLA
license to allow them to
make copies for educational
purposes

16. Can I use a
copyrighted image if I
give attribution?

17. No!

18. You must have a proper
licence or permission to
use copyrighted work.

19. Your license may include a
requirement of attribution.

20. Attribution on its own does
not constitute a license.

21. Don’t I have right
for fair use?

22. No!

23. Fair use a US doctrine,
the UK has fair dealing
which is similar but not the
same!

24. Fair dealing

25. Fair dealing is not a right it
is a defence!

26. Research (non-commercial)
Private study
Criticism
Review
News reporting

27. Never to distribute to
another person
(e.g. make photocopies for all students)

28. Public domain

29. Copyright term has expired
Copyright is not applicable
Has been marked as public
domain by creator

30. Differs by country, type of
work, etc.

31. Works in the public domain
in the US, may not be public
domain in the UK.

32. US federal government
works in the public domain
but UK government under
crown license.

33. Unreliable. Better to use
works with an explicit
license.

34. Creative Commons

36. License to copy, distribute,
modify or reuse a
copyrighted work!

37. 4 options to
license

38. BY Attribution
NC Non-commercial
ND No derivatives
SA Share alike

40. Rules of thumb
CC BY Approve designed by Venkatesh Aiyulu from the Noun Project

42. Safe to use without limits

43. Always keep a record of
where your got the image
from and with what licence!

44. Safe to use with attribution

45. OK to use anywhere only IF
shared under same license

46. OK for conference presentation
NOT for teaching materials

47. OK for conference presentation
NOT for teaching materials
IF shared under same license

48. How to reference
creative commons
images

49. Same slide
OR
Credits slide at the end

50. CC BY work title author
name link

51. One way to provide attribution is as
reference and link on the same
page/slide
CC BY orangeacid http://www.flickr.com/photos/71753457@N00/8422757897/

52. Another way to provide attribution is
as reference and link on separate
page/slide

53. Where to get
creative commons
images?

54. Interfaces to Flickr and
other repositories do not
store images themselves

55. search.creativecommons.or
g
compfight.com

56. search.creativecommons.org

57. Compfight.com is a simple interface to
find Creative Commons licensed images
on Flickr

58. The Noun Project
has great CC icons

59. TheNounProject.com search for
“reading”

60. Free with attribution but must attribute

61. NounProject take attribution seriously

62. Open Government
Licence

63. UK equivalent to Creative Commons

64. NationalArchives.gov.uk not all open

65. Stock photography

66. Professional photos made
available royalty free for
limited commercial
purposes

67. What is royalty free?

68. Royalty-free images may
be used multiple times for
multiple projects without
paying additional fees.

69. Restrictions on
royalty free?

70. Varies by stock photo
provider but…

71. No resale
Limited number of
impressions (eg. half a
million)
Limited commercial products
(eg. no T-Shirts, Mugs, etc.)

72. Often there are tiers
by use
by size

73. How much does it
cost?

74. Credits
Subscriptions

75. 20p … £5
per image

76. Stock photo
sources

77. iStockPhoto.com ShutterStock.com
Fotolia.com

78. Can I use
(Microsoft) clipart?

79. No

80. advertise your
business
create a company logo
illustrate the chapters
of a book

81. Yes

82. personal, noncommercial
uses
school assignments and
projects
church brochure

83. Work I create as part
of my job?

84. Through contract
agreement copyright may
be owned by your institution.

85. Personal work I/friend
want to share with my
institution?

86. Permission (non-exclusive
license)
Creative Commons license
(CC BY)

87. Other sources of
Open Content

88. FreeSound.org
OpenClipart.org
OERcommons.org
Archive.org
Pixabay.com

89. Sources with some
Open Content

90. YouTube.com
Vimeo.com/creativecommon
s
500px.com/creativecommon
s
SlideShare.net

91. Look for Creative Commons in
search options

92. Summary

93. Everything has copyright
Use Creative Commons with
attribution
Use bought stock photos
within license restriction

94. Creative Commons Attribution
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