Finding and Using Media

LegallyDawn Wolf

Director of Information SystemsCatholic Diocese of Sioux Falls

Finding and Using Media Legally!

If you’re looking for content that you can freely and legally use, there is a giant pool of CC-

licensed creativity available to you. There are hundreds of millions of works from songs and 

videos to scientific and academic  material available to the public for free and legal use

under the terms of our copyright licenses, with more being contributed every day.

Creative Commons Licensing

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Creative Commons Licensing

Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos

• Increasingly, authors and producers and choosing to label their works with Creative Commons licenses.

• These licenses allow people to reuse an author’s work under certain conditions.

• In general attribution is required.

Attribution?at·tri·bu·tion n. 1. The act of attributing,

especially the act of establishing a particular person as the creator of a work of art.

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Google Image Advanced Search

Yahoo Image Advanced Search

Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos

Use the advanced settings to refine your results to copyright free.

Finding and Using Media Legally!

Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos

The Wikimedia Commons is packed with images and other works that are labeled for reuse.

Check the licensing statement for each image before reusing.

Some images require attribution while others are in the public domain and do not require attribution.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos

• Collection contains thousands of images. • Use images for free in academic or

commercial presentations.

• Searched by:• subject category, • image size, • color, or rating.

Http://www.morguefile.com/

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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos

Flickr is a hugely popular photo sharing website.

It can be a good source of images, *but not everyone labels their images for reuse.

Use the advanced settings to find images labeled for reuse.

Http://www.flickr.com/

Flickr Advanced Search

Resizing your Pictures

Microsoft Picture Managerpre-defined sizes for websites and emails

Zoner Photo Studio Free

Free Image Editor

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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos

PodSafe Audio provides music tracks for use in podcasts, videos, and other multimedia projects.

http://www.podcastfaq.com/resources/podsafe-audio/

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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos

The Free Sound Project is comprised of sounds (not music) that can be reused with attribution.

In order to download sounds from The Free Sound Project you do need to register for an account.

Http://www.freesound.org/

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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound

The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free Music Archive is used under various creative commons licenses.

Anyone can download music from FMA for use in podcasts and videos.

http://freemusicarchive.org/

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Finding Free Sound Editors

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac You can use Audacity to:Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into

digital recordings or CDs.Edit MP3, or WAV and other sound files. Cut, copy,

splice or mix sounds together.

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Finding Free Sound Editors

Audioboo

Mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and share audio

http://audioboo.fm/

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Finding Free Sound Editors

Myna is a free web-based audio track mixer created by Aviary. Using Myna you can mix together up to ten tracks to create your own audio files.

http://aviary.com/tools/myna

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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound

Sound Bible is a resource for finding and downloading free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites.

All of the sounds on Sound Bible are either public domain or labeled with a Creative Commons license.

You can find sounds for use in podcasts, videos, and slideshows.http://soundbible.com/

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Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides

Quickly create a video using still images, music, video clips, and text. If you can make a slideshow presentation, you can make a video using either…

Windows Movie Maker (MS Office)

Animoto

http://animoto.com/

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Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides

Masher

Masher is a great, free, tool for creating video mash-ups. offers a large collection of video clips from the BBC's Motion Gallery and Rip Curl video.

There is a large music library, an effects library, and a good selection of video player skins.

Http://masher.com

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Inexpensive and “Almost Free” Images and Sound

iStock PhotoCredits based on type and size of file downloading.

www.istockphoto.com/

Royalty Free Music music tracks that can be reused in numerous ways.charges the general public for their downloads.

http://www.stockmusic.net/

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Other Open Source and Free

Microblogging - Create an account on Twitter. Follow other catechetical and pastoral leaders. Check out Brad West's article Go Tweet It On The Mountain Top .Tweet

out information about your parish. Explore use of twitter for conferences or meetings for sharing ideas.

Blogging - Use Google Blogger, Edublogs or WordPress to create you blog. Use Microsoft Word to publish to your blog on your parish website

Learning Management System – Moodle - A free, open-source PHP web application for producing modular internet-based courses.

Resources

Catholic Technology Magazine

Catholic Techtalk

Komando.com

TechRepublic

richardbyrne @freetech4teachers.com