Images and Copyright Laws

Erickson Hall in the middle of a renovation!

This week in class, we learned about uploading images and also about the copyright issues regarding images that others upload onto the Internet. In being introduced to this idea, I now know how to claim rights to my own pictures that I upload and can choose an option that does not let anyone else take or share my images. This is a very useful tool and will be extremely helpful in making sure that my pictures are not being used elsewhere on the Internet.

In using Creative Commons, I, as well as my students, will be able to use images for class projects and other various activities without having to worry about running into copyright issues. This website is very useful and I look forward to learning more about using Creative Commons for my future classroom.

I foresee some challenges in teaching students about copyright laws dealing with images and videos on the Internet. Students may not realize that it is not appropriate to simply take images from Google Images and use them on their own classroom projects. Taking images from the Internet without knowing about specific copyright laws can be dangerous and is not encouraged in the Education community. Therefore, using websites like Creative Commons will prove to be very effective in the classroom. In searching on sites such as flickrCC, you are only searching among images that have copyright settings that allow you to utilize them for your own use.

I look forward to learning more about copyright laws and making sure that my classroom is using images and videos from the Internet properly.