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The Center for Social Media just posted a new video and PDF explaining how to use Fair Use in Education. The document "Code of Best Practices In Fair Use for Media Literacy Education" can be found at this site: - http://tinyurl.com/5oxerd

Jamendo has more than 10,000 albums by more than 5000 artists, all free for teachers to download,  use and in some cases even edit in their classroom. Each album is labeled according to its Creative Commons licensing, whether it's attribution only, non-commercial, and/or no derivatives. You can search for music according to artist, style, and/or licensing.

It may not be Top 40, but there's a LOT there in a lot of different styles! 

I don't know if this is something that everyone else knows about, but I am just learning about Creative Commons licensing. It has been around since 2001, and provides a way for creators of content to set up the way that they want their work to be used by others. What do we know about them and what if any, are problems associated with using cc licensed work? They provide a searchable database for cc licensed work as well as links which allow you to cc license your own work. It certainly seems in line with open source products and free software, the "let's share" movements. I like what I see.....

As Robert noted, there isn't much curriculum on copyright and fair use, and teachers don't really know what it's about. Although we do a piece on it in all of our trainings, it will be interesting to see if there will be a demand for a trainer of trainers program that addresses all of the areas in the Chavez legislation.

One thing I'd like to see us suggest for a student curriculum piece are some key questions - how would you feel if... what would you do if... what are the possible consequences of.... Kids definitely have opinions (whether informed or not) about internet safety, plagiarism, peer file sharing, etc. We need to help students engage their critical thinking and problem solving skills as part of the info lit curriculum, because otherwise it's just one more list of do's and don't's we're throwing at them.