Online, user-friendly resource for licensing music for recording and reproducing.
MENC addresses the often-overlooked legal issues involved in recording and selling student performances.
MENC answers the question of whether or not you can legally change the lyrics to a copyrighted song.
A playful and positive look at navigating copyright regulations when creating digital media for the classroom and with students. Provides explanations and links to Public Domain and Creative Commons resources. The blog "Bionic Teaching" has a companion Powerpoint presentation - http://bionicteaching.com/?p=411.
All forms of print publishing must contend with the digital transition, but college textbook publishing has a particularly nasty problem on its hands. College students may be the angriest group of captive customers to be found anywhere.
A reference site to help identify public domain and royalty free music.
A professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law has created a nifty blog for students to hash out a debate about a fictional copyright-infringement case.
A technology-law scholar in Canada, has been vigorously campaigning against a proposed copyright reform bill via YouTube and Facebook.
The resources listed below are worth going through if you need to get familiar with the big picture - and it's big. Copyright is a very important issue in the current world and there are valuable resources regarding copyright on the Educational CyberPlayGround .
“The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy,” released by American University’s Center for Social Media, is based on interviews that university researchers conducted with more than 60 media-literacy educators. Those interviews paint a fairly grim portrait of teachers, unsure about the specifics of fair-use doctrine, cowed into avoiding perfectly valid uses of copyrighted material.