Queensland

You have entered cyber-region of Australia and are now in the cyber-country of: **Queensland** You have a mission to learn about **Respecting Creative Work** dealing with:

**// Copyrights & Wrongs //** Your job, if you chose to accept this mission, is to complete as many "**//Activities"//** below that will allow you to earn up $20 American Dollars. Remember, to earn that many American dollars you will have to complete at least 2 (//two//) "Activities"

Review the Key Vocabulary Words: Review the definitions as you complete the mission activities below.
 * **Fair Use:** The ability to use a small amount of someone’s creative work without permission, but only in certain ways
 * **Commercial Purposes:** A use in connection with a business, usually for profit
 * **Copyright:** A law that protects you’re a creator’s ownership of and control over the work he or she creates, requiring other people to get you’re the creator’s permission before they copy, share, or perform that work
 * **Creative Commons:** A kind of copyright that makes it easy for people to copy, share, and build on someone’s creative work – as long as they give the creator credit for it
 * **Public** **Domain:** Creative work that’s not protected by copyright and is therefore free for you to use however one wants


 * Activity #1 **

Wrap Up & Assess

 * 1) ======What do you need to do if you want to use someone else’s creative work? ======
 * 2) ======What is copyright, and what does it require people to do? ======
 * 3) ======When you use creative work that you find online, do you think it is fair use? ======
 * 4) ======Can you use creative work that is posted under a Creative Commons license? ======
 * 5) ======<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">What about work that is in the public domain? ======
 * 6) ======<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Do you think it is important to give credit and get permission, if needed, when you use someone else’s creative work? Why or why not? ======

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Answer the above questions without going back to the previous missions and post your answers in your Travel Logs under the discussion tab; "Intellegence Activities" and title your post; "Assessment in Copyright laws".

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[Worth upto $10 American Dollars]

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Activity #2 **
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">The website below is an excellent source for images that are in the public domain: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Online Catalog]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">The website below is where you can find many photos that can be used under a Creative Commons license: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;"> [|Flickr]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Find a partner either in class or with a parent or other family member and **choose a subject** that interests you both – perhaps something related to family history, such as Ellis Island or the early history of your city or town.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Search for images on your subject on the Library of Congress site and/or on Flickr site above.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Choose at least four images, capture or save the images to your computer and create a photo display. Each image should have a caption that includes its title, date, and any available information on its source.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Use Photoshop, [|Frobee Slideshow Maker], [|PhotoSnack], or [|Animoto] to create a slide show or video on the computer.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">**Upload** and **embed** your video to your Travel Logs and title your video an appropriate name and include a subtile of "**Queensland Activity**".

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[Worth upto $20 America Dollars]