Recently in my Digital Literacy class we learned all about Creative Commons. We learned about the different licenses and how to use them properly. We created an adobe voice that explains the basics about Creative Commons and how to use it. Here is the link to my adobe voice about Creative Commons.
On twitter my teacher, Mrs. Scheffer, introduced us to a problem she found that had to do with somebody taking advantage of Creative Commons and somebody else’s work. Beth Still wrote a blog post called Curating versus Stealing exposing a blogger who has been stealing work from other bloggers. Richard Byrne recently blogged about making a jeopardy game with Google. Richard posted this on January 1st, and by January 3, a person by the name of @medkh9 copied his work and used it as his own on a blog called Education Technology. Not only did @medkh9 steal Richards work, but he put it on his website using a Creative Commons website. This tells everyone that the work he published on his website, that wasn’t his in the first place, is okay for anyone to use “his” work as long as they give credit to him. This is wrong in many ways because he is used Richards work without permission, he is giving everybody the right to use that work, and he is taking the credit for it! If Richard used a Creative Commons license, @medkh9 could have used Richards work and gave credit to him, but instead, he has probably lost many followers on twitter because everyone knows what he did was wrong, and now he is exposed.
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