Education and training departments work under tight budgets and deadlines. In this environment, the temptation to use images and media from the web increases, especially in light of the plethora of social spaces that are used to share such objects. But what can you use? Under what circumstances? And how do we give credit where credit is due?

In this session you’ll learn more about how you can use content you find online while still respecting copyright. You’ll start by taking a practical look at what copyright means to our industry, including investigating what content you can and can’t legally use in your work and how to give appropriate credit to creators. You’ll then explore a newer licensing option that makes it even easier for people to share and use content legally: Creative Commons. You’ll discover how this content license is particularly helpful when you have little to no budget, where to find Creative Commons-licensed content, and what ways you’re able to use what you find. This session will help you feel more confident that you’re using the media you find online the right way, and will even give you more sources for finding it in the first place.

In this session, you will learn:

• The basics of copyright law, fair use, and the TEACH act
• What Creative Commons (CC) licensing is, and what the different licenses mean
• How to find CC-licensed images and media
• How to easily and appropriately cite CC-licensed images and media

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
None