What should we know?

A Fair(y) Use Tale






Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law




Stanford professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues. In a time when “content” is not confined to a film canister, Lessig has a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition.



Copyright Sites for Teachers and Students (by Craig Roland)


Copyright Kids
The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. is a nonprofit corporation that was founded in 1953 to foster interest in and advance the study of copyright law and the rights in literature, music, art, the theater, motion pictures, and other forms of intellectual property.
Friends of Active Copyright Education (FA©E), is a new initiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. The principal goal of FA©E is to provide a broad range of resources to foster and support copyright education. To further that goal, a FA©E subcommittee developed the copyrightkids.org web site to teach school-age children the basics of copyright law.





What is Creative Commons?

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."



More Creative Commons; an interesting and illuminating video entitled 'Reticulum Rex' comes highly recommended.