Creative
commons is a website that offers six licenses that allow you to copyright your
own intellectual property. After reviewing the six options, I would choose:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs - CC
BY-NC-ND
“This license is the
most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download
your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they
can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.” As an
artist/photographer I share my work on my flickr page, and do not currently
have any licenses helping to protect my work. When doing a google search for my
name, I come across pages and pages of websites and blogs that have posted my
work without my permission. I have had a handful of magazines and websites
personally contact me to get my permission, which I have appreciated. I always
ask that they include my name and link to my flickr and etsy pages along with
the images.
As an art teacher I
think it is important to teach students about how to properly go about using
other peoples work/intellectual property in presentations, or as a reference
for a drawing for example. Fair use is the use of copyrighted intellectual
property that can be used for educational purposes only. I am going to
encourage my students to put their work up on a blog or flickr page, and I want
them to feel comfortable doing that. It will be my responsibility to make sure they
are aware of the options available to help them protect their own work from
being used inappropriately. A rule of thumb when it comes to using anything on
the Internet is to assume that it is copyrighted, unless you find out other
wise.
Plagiarism is an
issue in many schools and colleges today. Students who plagiarize will can
either receiving an F on the assignment, or an F for the course, depending on
the severity of the issue. Plagiarism does not have to be a direct quote taken
from somewhere; it can be a thought or idea as well. If students do not site
the resource or author, they can get themselves in serious trouble.
Occasionally a student might accidentally plagiarize by forgetting to add the
source, and there will also be occasions when students blatantly steal someone else’s
intellectual property. Teachers can use google as tool to search for key words
and phrases if a student’s work sounds questionable.
Online safety is a
topic of importance for teachers, students, and parents. If a teacher is
requiring that students use the Internet to do research or find images, it is
there responsibility to inform that about proper Internet usage. Each school
has an acceptable use policy that will outline the guidelines when it comes to
utilizing technology, computers, and the Internet at school. There are also quite
a few laws and protection acts that are set to help protect young children on the
Internet.
CIPA
– “The Children’s Internet Protect Act is a federal law enacted by Congress to
address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school
and library computers.”
COPPA – According to Wikipedia, the Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act “applies to the online collection of personal information by
persons or entities under U.S. jurisdiction from children under 13 years of age. It details what a
website operator must include in a privacy policy, when and how to seek verifiable consent
from a parent or guardian, and what responsibilities an operator
has to protect children's privacy and safety online including restrictions on
the marketing to those under 13.”
FERPA – Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act “is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education
records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable
program of the U.S. Department of Education. FERPA gives parents certain rights
with respect to their children's education records. These rights transfer to
the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the
high school level. Students to whom the rights have transferred are
"eligible students."
DOPA – Deleting Online
Predators Act of 2006 is bill that would prohibit schools and libraries from
providing access to “Commercial Social Networking Websites” and “Chat Rooms” to
minors or create restrictions to use of these type of sites. The bill also
would require the institutions to be capable of disabling the restrictions for
"use by an adult or by minors with adult supervision to enable access for
educational purposes."
This bill
is controversial because it could limit harmless websites with educational material.
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