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Heather Ford
Benetech Fellow GreenNet Creative Commons 101 Creative Commons 101 is an educational portal that allows teachers to extract modules from a set of Creative Commons learning materials in order to build their own multimedia curricula for use in the classroom. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization at Stanford Law School that has developed a set of licenses free for public use that allow authors to retain some rights to prevent exploitation of their work for commercial use while giving some rights away. Materials include video clips of experts speaking on the subject of copyright and Creative Commons, comprehensive case studies investigating the use of license contracts in the field of copyright as well as background lecture notes. Teachers can register on the site to be part of a database of universities taking part in Creative Commons 101. They can also read about how they could collaborate with other teachers around the world in student projects or with Creative Commons Africa. The team at Creative Commons Africa will be able to upload topics of questions that require critical thinking so that students can use their projects to feed into the real-world problem-solving.
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