{"id":39,"date":"2017-06-20T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:39:05","slug":"copyright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/computerlit\/copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"Information About Copyright and Fair Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Nuts and Bolts:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mediaeducationlab.com\/sites\/mediaeducationlab.com\/files\/Section%201%20understanding%20copyright%202009.pdf\">Understanding Copyright<\/a> (Media Education Lab)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachingcopyright.org\/handout\/copyright-faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copyright FAQs<\/a>\u00a0(Electronic Frontier Foundation)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingcopyright.org\/handout\/fair-use-faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fair Use FAQs<\/a>\u00a0(Electronic Frontier Foundation)<\/li>\n<li>Media Education Foundation&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;A Fair(y) Use Tale&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Copyright and the University<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.online.uillinois.edu\/resources\/intellectualproperty.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Illinois Online Intellectual Property Policies, Procedures, and Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Finding copyright friendly content:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Commons Public Domain<\/a>\u00a0(Search field: \u201cpublic domain,\u201d select: \u201cI want something that I can modify, adapt, or build upon.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/librarycopyright.net\/resources\/fairuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fair Use Evaluator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smore.com\/f677-a-copyright-friendly-toolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Copyright-Friendly Toolkit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/30-creative-commons-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30+ places to find Creative Commons media<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/creative-common-music-download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Commons Music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everystockphoto.com\/\">everystockphoto.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"morgueFile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.morguefile.com\/archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">morgueFile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Flickr Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/commons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flickr Commons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"YouTube Audio Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/audiolibrary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube Audio Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"YouTube Audio Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/audiolibrary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smithsonian Institution Public Domain Images<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Public_Domain_Images_from_the_New_York_Times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times Public Domain Archives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Archive<\/a>\u00a0Access digital collections of text, audio, moving images and archived webpages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bensound<\/a>\u00a0for original music (be sure to click on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensound.com\/license\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">licensing link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Canva<\/li>\n<li>Pixabay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Example of Creative Commons image attribution:<\/h2>\n<p><em>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonhurd\/492395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laertes<\/a>\u00a0licensed under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons 4.0 International<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Sample request letter for permission to use a copyrighted work:<\/h2>\n<p>Hello,<br \/>\nI am a student at University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois. I am working on a web page for a class project and I was wondering if I could have permission to use an image from your site. [INSERT a sentence that describes the purpose of your project and the reason why the image is desired.] I would be happy to remove the image when the project is finished at the end of the semester (INSERT the date). The URL of my site is http:\/\/www.uni.illinois.edu\/filename.html.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nClementine Studious<br \/>\nstudious@uni.illinois.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nuts and Bolts: Understanding Copyright (Media Education Lab) Copyright FAQs\u00a0(Electronic Frontier Foundation) Fair Use FAQs\u00a0(Electronic Frontier Foundation) Media Education Foundation&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;A Fair(y) Use Tale&#8221; Copyright and the University University of Illinois Online Intellectual Property Policies, Procedures, and Resources Finding copyright friendly content: Creative Commons\u00a0and\u00a0Creative Commons Public Domain\u00a0(Search field: \u201cpublic domain,\u201d select: \u201cI want something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/1634"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}