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Geelong: Digital Citizenship

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Copyright

COPYRIGHT :

  • PROTECTS creators and what they have made legally. 
  • It is FREE and occurs automatically when material is created.
  • It DOES NOT protect ideas, information, styles or techniques.
  • It DOES NOT protect names, titles or slogans.
  • It GENERALLY LASTS for the LIFE of the creator, plus 70 years.
  • LOOK for the   symbol.

The films here look at how to be a good and sensible user of online resources and how to be careful in the online world.

Some good websites to find out more

Intellectual Property and Trademarks

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY is the property of your mind/ideas: it may be an invention, a design, a brand, a trademark or even the idea. It MUST be new or original.

 

A TRADEMARK is used to make your business or company STAND OUT from others.

It may be a:

  • CORPORATE LOGO
  • A JINGLE
  • Your registered business name on the side of your truck
  • A SCENT or PERFUME.

Where to get my PICTURES from??

USING IMAGES FREE of OWNERSHIP

Images on the Internet are often owned by someone and using them without permission may become an issue.

Below are some suggestions to get around this problem.

 

CREATIVE COMMONS SEARCH: https://search.creativecommons.org/

Search Creative Commons for IMAGES that you can FREELY use.

 

FREE IMAGES: https://www.freeimages.com/

OR

PEXELS: https://www.pexels.com/

Both Pexels and Free Images have 1000's of images to FREELY choose from. 

 

IMAGE SEARCH ON GOOGLE: allows you to filter the images that are Royalty free.

How do I tell me teacher where I got my information?

There are LOTS of rules about how to acknowledge or recognise where you get your information from.

You should have the AUTHOR/CREATOR, TITLE, DATE CREATED, WEB ADDRESS (URL), DATE ACCESSED  (if a web site) and PUBLISHER. 

There are different STYLES of REFRENCING; at Corio campus we use TURABIAN style.