Introduction
Creative Commons provides a free licence for creators who want to publicly share their work and allows them to choose how others are allowed to use their work.
Click here to discover the six licences types that Creative Commons offers.
Task
Your task is to find at least one audio file representing each of the six copyright licences and provide an example of how you could use the audio without breaking the terms of the licence. Please find examples that you could use in your advertisement, it is not necessary to use all of the examples in your final project, however, you will be expected to use at least one. All examples must also be appropriate to share in the classroom.
Some examples of websites you could start looking at are:
Process
Once you have found your examples, please format your findings in a table as outlined below.
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Evaluation
Share some of your examples with your classmates and discuss the different licensing of your examples. Did you find any examples that you liked but couldn't use? What could you do to solve this problem?
Conclusion
Once you have found all of your examples, choose which ones you could use for your advertisement and save them for your use. Ensure that the examples you have chosen have the correct licence for you to be able to use them.
Teacher Page
This WebQuest was designed to develop students Ethical Understanding as part of the General Capabilities in The Australian Curriculum. This resource is set in context with a project during which students have to compose the music for an advertisement. This task allows students to find examples of sounds they may like to use, whilst teaching them the importance of copyright using Creative Commons licensing.