Copyright & Creative Commons Workshop

Hello!

I am David Gill, Communications Librarian

He/Him/His

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*I am not a lawyer and this presentation does not constitute legal advice

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By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

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Identity Creative Commons Licences

Assess Creative Commons images for other copyright considerations

Use Creative Commons Search to find Images

Attribute Creative Commons Materials

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Creative Commons Library Guide

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Creative Commons Search is great but...

People apply their own CC licences to the images. CC search does not verify if the content is correctly licenced. So it is up to you to assess each image if there are other copyright considerations.

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Let’s go over what CC BY 2.0 means again

"LeBron James New York City More Than a Game 3 by David Shankbone" by david_shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0

• Image of public figures (athletes and performers)

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"loretto street art" by I'm trying to collect the work of loretto, is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

• Image of things that are copyrighted

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• Lorrento is a street artist in London and yes, street art is covered by copyright

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"Flatiron Building late afternoon, Manhattan, NYC" by andrew c mace is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Public and private property

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"Sony Logo" by yum9me is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

"Microsoft" by JeepersMedia is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Corporate logos

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Searching

Creative Commons

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Decide your purpose

Do I want to modify or adapt all the pictures?

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Attributions: no changes vs changes to the original

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"vegan donuts" by foonus, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/ text added from original

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This work, “Belly YUMMY Vegan CRAY donut”, is a derivative of "vegan donuts" by foonus, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. “Belly YUMMY Vegan CRAY donut” is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by David Gill.

Your turn: searching

Find at least one image* for either the recruiting campaign or student survival guide.

*The image you find must let you make changes to the work

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Your turn: attribution

Make slight changes to the work and write an attribution as described by the best practices for Attribution wiki

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Where to get help

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Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:

• Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
• Photographs by Unsplash
• All Copyright and Creative Commons content except when otherwise noted is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Presentation design

This presentation uses the following typographies:

• Titles: Poppins Bold
• Body copy: Poppins Light

You can download the fonts at:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/poppins

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You don’t need to keep this slide in your presentation. It’s only here to serve you as a design guide if you need to create new slides or download the fonts to edit the presentation in PowerPoint®

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SlidesCarnival icons are editable shapes.

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This means that you can:

• Resize them without losing quality.
• Change line color, width and style.

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Isn’t that nice? :)

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Examples:

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Diagrams and infographics

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Now you can use any emoji as an icon!

And of course it resizes without losing quality and you can change the color.

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How? Follow Google instructions https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/730087240156643328

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