The site has information on how to download the book, which, by the way, is really neat. Tons of graphics and easily recognized visual images. I have not read it all yet, but I will download it and keep it for future use. Under Comics, go to Buy the Book and find out how to purchase one or more copies at $5.95 each for your library or class (bulk rates offered). Kids would love this! Their Resources list legal resources, organization, and publications--useful tools for this blog and with our future library patrons.
The comic book has a copyright date of 2006, but is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons, Attributions, Non-commercial, Share-alike license, giving you the right to copy and distribute the book non-commercially as long as you attribute the work to the authors, do not sell it, and distribute altered or derivative works under an identical license. The information is on page two. Pretty interesting. Take a look.
Aoki, K., Boyle, J., & Jenkins, J. (2006). Tales from the public domain: Bound by law? Durham, NC: Duke University School of Law.
Barack, L. (2008). Gadzooks! School Library Journal, 54(9), 19.
3 comments:
The comic sounds like a great way to introduce copyright laws. Thanks for posting the information. I hope to check it out soon!
Regina,
That comic book is really neat and
so timely. Can you not just see all the lessons that could develop from it?!? It's especially pertinent thinking about how much kids do with MySpace and YouTube these days. Very cool!
The comic book is awesome, Regina! I found it when I researching Creative Commons. I created a link for it on my website, too. I thought it explained some public domain issues in a real graphic and reader-friendly way.
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