As teachers and students, you may create and share videos and other creative work all the time, whether in face-to-face classroom settings, among peers, or in a private online network. Many of the things you do in these settings may NOT be allowable when you take it public.
if you are going to create multimedia projects like instructional videos that you will distribute through public sites like iTunes U, you must learn to follow basic guidelines to avoid copyright infringement.
Learning about digital copyright is an important step in designing your podcasts.
There is much to learn about this subject, and a good place to start is the Podcasting Legal Guide
, posted on the website.
The document is easy to navigate and includes many examples that are specific to the work you are doing.
You may be able to find images or other work that is in the public domain. This includes older content that is no longer under copyright, and work published by the government. You can easily search for public domain images check out public domain information from the U.S. Government
Check out this 7-minute video on Copyright Compliance:
- Common Sense Media Video: Credit for Creative Work--appropriate and inappropriate ways to use original online work for students.