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Scenario...

You have several seventh grade science classes collaborating on wikis. Students are divided into groups and are collecting information on each of the kingdoms of living organisms. The wikis are used to present the information, including some slide presentations and graphics your students have created.

Your Monera kingdom group has been doing extremely creative work and has created an impressive presentation on bacteria. The group has received a request by a teacher to use some of their graphics on bacteria cell structure for a project at a school in a nearby state. The students who created the work would get credit for their contribution, and the request is for two graphics out of over a dozen in the presentation.

How do you advise your students?

What we think our students should do...

First, we think our students should give us, the teachers, the information they received in order for us (teacher and student together) to do some research on the person making the request. Once we have checked the reliability of the person, we could then take further steps.

If the person turns out to not be a teacher, then we, the teacher, would write them back and tell them that we are sorry that we are not able to share our resources at this time, but thank them for the interest in the wonderful project of our students.

If the person is in fact a teacher from another district, we would have the students ask their parents how they feel about sharing this information and also share this information with the principal. We would also ask the teacher how exactly they are going to use the graphic and how they will be sharing the information with their students, whether it is through handouts, the internet, etc.

Once it has been determined that a teacher will be using our information and how they will use it, that teacher should be reminded to give our students credit for the work. Work done on Wikispaces is protected under the Creative Commons License. The teacher using our student's materials should site our wiki on their own material.

=EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND COPYRIGHT LAW FOR WIKIS AND INTERNET =


 * 1) Graphs or graphics taken from on-line sources, books, magazines, or videos must be given credit on your wiki site. **
 * Beware of copyright laws for pictures, graphics, graphs, videos, and information taken from texts. Those people have **
 * done all the work and they deserve to be acknowledged and given credit for their work that you are going to use. **


 * 2) Before allowing usage of material, graphics or videos from your wiki site to person(s), a company, people or other schools **
 * you must secure proof of their identity and their identity should be confirmed by 2 separate sources. **


 * 3) Original material, created by your group, should be protected by copyright or other legal means if your team and instructor feels your material is new information and is very relevant to that subject. **


 * 4) Confirm the site where the request is originating from, look for tags or investigate that source for legitimacy. **

SOURCES FOR INTERNET LAW:

Copyright Confusion

Bitlaw

Internet Copyright