Copyright+and+Fair+Use

=__Copyright and Fair Use__=

Explanations and resources
Copyright and fair Use: This links to the wiki copyright confusion, with sources for teachers and students on what copyright means and what fair use means.

American University Center for Social Media: Code of best practices.

Copyright Advisory Network: A community of librarians, copyright scholars, policy wonks and others.

Portals for images, sounds and other media
Flickr CC Blue Mountains : photo images with attribution.

Flickr Free Use Photos: No attribution needed.

Openphoto: Free Stock Images.

Open ClipArt: Free clip art

US Government Photos and Multimedia: Most items are public domain, but check the disclaimers.

Library of Congress Photostream on Flickr

Wikimedia Commons: A database of 14 [|freely usable] media files to which [|anyone can contribute].

[|Pics4Learning] Copyright friendly images for education

Content Specific Media
[|Smithsonian Flickr PhotoStream]

[|American Memory Collection]: Library of Congress. (click on "Photos and Prints" and check the "Copyright and Restrictions" section for each collection)

[|American Memory Maps Collection]

[|America From the Great Depression to World War II: FSA/OWI 1935-1945] American Memory collection

[|Great Images in NASA]

[|NASA Image Exchange]

[|NASA Multimedia Gallery]

[|NASA Photo Archive]

[|NASA's Planetary Photojournal]

[|Sound Map of the World]

Easybib :The Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker

Bibme: fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. **And it's free.** Duke University Library: Documentation Guidelines for citing sources and avoiding plagiarism.