Copyright

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**Key Concepts & Principles**

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[|Copyright & Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web]

= **Images** =

- Links to a variety of websites with copyright-friendly images from Springfield Township High School's Virtual Library

- Creative Commons Search

- A database of culturally authentic Creative Commons images, organized by language and topic

- Search for Flickr photos with [|Creative Commons licenses]

- A Flickr group dedicated to collecting images for language teaching and learning

- Copyright safe, royalty free images

- A collection of photos in the public domain

- Royalty free images for classroom use from a variety of countries

- Has lots of professional photos from Spanish-speaking countries--look for the terms of use--standard license means you can use it in your PowerPoints and etc. Sometimes you just need to notify the photographer (using the comments feature)

**Arabic**

 * [|Arabic] - General images related to Arabic culture


 * [|Arabic Food]


 * [|Arabic Interpretive Communication] - Objects and signs with Arabic writing on them


 * [|Arabic People & Professions]

**Chinese**

 * [|China]


 * [|Chinese Characters]


 * [|Chinese Culture]


 * [|Chinese Food]


 * [|Chinese New Year]


 * [|Chinese People]

**French**

 * [|French]

**German**

 * [|German]

**Japanese**

 * [|Japanese]

**Russian**

 * [|Russian]

**Spanish**

 * [|Spanish Art]
 * [|Spanish Culture]
 * [|Spanish Food]
 * [|Spanish Places]
 * [|Spanish-speaking People]

- Extensive, searchable collection of drawings teachers can use to create materials for world language classes

= **Multimedia (Audio & Video)** =

- A Creative Commons project that lets you download, remix, and share music (including songs from popular artists)

- Community Video, an Internet Archive Project that allows you to download video for free (check the Creative Commons Licenses on each one to see if you can modify it)

- Free, copyright safe sounds (i.e., sound effects, not music)

- Free, copyright safe music

- Free classical music, searchable by composer, genre, form, instrument, performer, and period

- Wikipedia article with links to open source films

- Allows you to stream copyright safe music from your wiki or website

= = = **Text** =

- A collection of documents in the public domain

- Collections of primary source documents and multimedia materials from American history including ads, culture, literature, maps, music, etc.

- Audiobooks in a variety of languages

- Free, downloadable e-books of texts in the public domain

More information


- Interactive game with simple questions and answers about copyright

- Derechos de autor, uso justo, y TEACH Act