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information and content to becoming creators and publishers of information and content,  due to the possibilities new technologies provide.
 * Increasingly, teachers and students are moving from being consumers of

There is also an increase in the publication of student work beyond the educational sphere. Whereas once student work was only displayed and shared in the classroom, nowadays work can be published online where the entire world may view it.

This increases the importance of knowledge of copyright, as educational permissions do not apply once the work is broadcast to a non-educational audience. Therefore it is very important for teachers  and students to be aware other sources of materials, and other licences that provide for reuse.  The best known of these is Creative Commons licensing, however there are other options such as material that is in the Public Domain, and therefore completely free to use, as well as material that  has been marked Open Educational Resources (OER), Free Educational Resources and material licenced under the GNU, which is known as General Public Licensing. ||  || media type="custom" key="19588926" align="center" || This wikispace has been developed to provide fast and easy access to a range of high quality resources to assist teachers and students develop a clearer understanding of Copyright, Creative Commons and other licences. It also aims to provide a 'one stop shop' for finding digital materials that may be used in the creation of multimedia and information on how to correctly acknowledge their use.



Copyright and Copyleft by Kay Oddone ResourceLink, Brisbane Catholic Education is licensed under a [|Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)]