Thing #10 – Creative Commons

Yes, I have seen the CC logo, but I never gave it much thought until this lesson.

I think CC will give students more freedom as they work. They tend to not think about copyright laws and so this will give them some leeway without legal issues. This is sort of taking away the plagiarisms issues that students face when writing a research paper.

I think plagiarisms were so thoroughly ingrained when we were younger and writing research papers. However, students don’t think too much about taking something off the web for use in projects. So with CC students have legal rights to use some material off the web in projects.

I think there is still the issue of publishing something as though it is MINE when it is full of things that belong to someone else.

Teaching materials, written articles, etc that I want credit for must not have materials that were created by someone else without specific written permission.

Potentially there is the problem that students will get too comfortable using CC things and forget that not everything is CC material.