Thing 9 Revisited

Thing 9 Going Deeper: Copyright & Creative Commons...Sorry I fell asleep before I really commented on Creative Commons. According to the article by Educause Leaning Initiative at www.educause.edu/eli Creative Commons is "an alternative to traditional Copyright". After reading the article I realized how much easier CC is to use than traditional copyright; trying to reach elderly authors who may not use email, waiting for the reply, or not receiving one at all. All of this can take weeks or months by which time the project will be over especially with the law that copyright exists 70 years after the death of the work's creator. In general CC allows copyrighted materials to be shared which benefits all education, allows instructors to "think outside the box" on how to include previously copyrighted materials into their coursework & allows for the freedom to make derivative works providing new and different opportunities for previously unavailable work.