Creative Commons

Educators benefit from using creative commons because it offers a wealth of material that is free and legal to use, avoiding copyright infringement. Their goal is "universal access to research, education, and culture." Copywrite infringement lawsuits against teachers are not extremely common, due to the "fair use" exemption of the Copyright Act which allows for limited use of copywrited materials for purposes other than commercial profit such as for; news reporting, research, parody scholarship and teaching. However, in these days when students easily use a computer to copy and paste work that is not their own, it is important to teach students that pledgerism is not acceptable by modeling this value. Creative Commons provides a resource for sharing educational materials without disregarding this important value. Visit Creative Commons through this link: http://creativecommons.org/