I always thought that teachers and students were free to use almost anything as long as they cited their reference. After last weeks class, I realize that there are many copyright laws that are ever changing. It seems that copyrights laws get longer and longer. However, there is new technology that allows people to share photos, videos, and other multi-media. There are several sites where someone can go to get multi-media that are not copyrighted and available to use:
http://www.gutenberg.org/,
http://www.archive.org/,
http://creativecommons.org/,
http://www.loc.gov/index.html.
I got the picture below from creative commons and the photographer said that people could use his photo as long as he gets credit for it. If a person cites the photographer then he or she could use this in a presentation or in a portfolio.
See Photo in next blog post!
Photo by Seansie from Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdho/558951670/
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