Teach Copyright Right!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just released curriculum for teachers to teach students about their rights and responsibilities when it comes to copyright.

http://www.teachingcopyright.org/

The materials are free, Creative Commons licensed, and include handouts, goals and objectives, lesson plans, background material, and links to further information and related materials (such as Cory Doctorow's young adult science fiction novel, Little Brother, which won the Ontario Library Association's 2008 White Pine award).

All in all, it's very well designed, exactly what you'd expect from any good teaching resource. Given the emphasis on media literacy across the curriculum, copyright is definitely something we should be teaching students.

Related posts:

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents

Legal Rights of Bloggers

Generic FeedFlares for FeedBurner

When customizing the interactivity built into your blog feed using FeedBurner's FeedFlare feature, the easy way to do it is to use the GenericFeedFlare, which takes parameters:

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/variableflareunits/GenericFeedFlare.jspx?text=Some+text&link=http://www.somelink.com

Since the Creative Commons license functionality built into FeedBurner uses the CC 3.0 Unported version of the license, a good use of the generic FeedFlare is to add a CC license to my feed that uses the CC 2.5 Canada version of the license (the legalese is customized to the Canadian jurisdiction; wherever possible, use your country-specific CC license). To do this, I'd enter the following into the Add New Flare box:

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/variableflareunits/GenericFeedFlare.jspx?text=View+CC+License&link=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/

I've bolded the custom parameters above. You can change them to suit your application. In the example above, for instance, you would want to change the link to go to whichever CC license is appropriate for you (specific to your country and licensing preferences... above, I use the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Canada license).