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Besek, J. (2005). Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings. (CLIR Publication no. 135). Retrieved from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub135/pub135.pdf
Besek, J. (2009). Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Disemmination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives. (CLIR Publication no. 144). Retrieved from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub144/pub144.pdf
Brewer, M. (2007). Digital Copyright Slider. Retrieved from http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
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Boyle, J. (2010). The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
(available online under a CC: BY-NC-SA license)
Donaldson, M. (2008). Clearance and Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press.
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Give credit where credit is due. The same rules apply to a video or audiovisual work as do to a paper you write. Don't plagiarize and give credit is you have used the work of others. But there is no set format (like APA style for instance) for how to do this. It depends on what makes sense in your particular circumstances. You don't need yards of credits for a short 5 minute video.
The BBC has lots of experience with this and produces a pretty comprehensive guide (here https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/site/Opening_and_closing_Credits.pdf). You will not need to use all these fields, but take a particular look at the sections on "sources of programme material", "websites", and "with thanks."
Online Sources:
Creative Commons. (2010). Creative Commons. Retrieved from http://creativecommons.org/
Lessig, L. (2004). Free Culture How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: Penguin Press. Retrieved from http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
O'Sullivan, M. (2008). Creative Commons and Contemporary Copyright: A Fitting Shoe or "a Load of Old Cobblers?". First Monday 13, (7), <n.p>. Retrieved from http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2087/1919
Rens, A. (2006). Managing Risk and Opportunity in Creative Commons Enterprises. First Monday 11, (6), <n.p.> Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1336/1256
Print Sources:
Bollier, D. (2008). Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own. New York: New Press.
Donaldson, M. (2008). Clearance and Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press.
This guide on using public domain materials, Creative Commons licensed materials, and copyright law is provided for informational purposes only. I am not a lawyer and cannot provide legal advice. None of what you read in this tutorial should be construed as legal advice. Should you require legal advice, please contact an attorney.
This guide is based on a guide orginally created by Tammy Ravas, Visual and Performing Arts Librarian and Media Coordinator of the Mansfield Library at the The University of Montana. All errors are, of course, my own.