Plagiarism is the misrepresentation of authorship. Typically, words and ideas conceived by one person are attributed to another person. Open Source software WCopyfind download too...

The Intellectual Property Office can help you get the right type of protection for your creation or invention.

This Essentials Guide on Copyright Law provides readers with a direct, point-by-point guide on copyright law and its application to Further and Higher Education (FE and HE).

This IPR and Licensing module has been developed by the Strategic Content Alliance for staff working in public sector bodies to introduce to them the concepts of copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights and how they might deal with the rights and licensing issues associated with the curation and creation of digital content.

Free Royalty Free Music, Free Sound Effects. Use these free music tracks & free sound effects for any production - advertising, education, videos, photos, YouTube...etc.

Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find video resources for your work quickly and efficiently.

Internet Audio Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find audio resources for your work quickly and efficiently.

Takes any Creative Commons licensed image on Flickr and produces HTML code which can embedded into your website, blog or Moodle. Complete with link-back, attribution & license information. Very excellent. Download Squad, we thank you!

Vaughan Memorial Library tutorial on plagiarism

A wiki full of links to copyright friendly images and sounds resources. With proper attribution (in some cases no attribution) the images and sounds found in the links can be used for websites, blogs, podcasts, and other multimedia presentations.

Set of online tutorials and guides has been designed specifically for teaching professionals to help them to make best use of new technologies in their work.

Plagiarism tracker & checker.Track plagiarism by pasting your original text here

Still images, moving images and sound advice. JISC Digital Media, formerly TASI, exists to help the UK’s FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective.

JISC Projects has developed this interactive diagram identifying sources of content. The chart shows the flow of content and often multiple layers of rights associated with it. It also provides links to resources that can be used to address potential rights-related issues, as well as tools to help manage rights.

Interactive Copyright Tool for Schools and Colleges. Whilst copyright can be a complex issue, this interactive tool, created by JISC Collections, provides a simple route to help teachers and schools understand the rights related issues to ensure that content can be used legitimately.

The copyright advice & support project for JISC e-learning resources. JISC CASPER will be supporting the 19 projects funded as part of RepRODUCE (Repurposing & reuse of digital University-level content and evaluation) as they engage with all of the issues related to IPR and copyright.

Helping people make media that matters. Investigate, showcase and set standards for socially engaged media-making. Organize conferences and convenings, publish research, create codes of best practices, and incubate media strategies.

Soundzabound is the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! $99 p.a.

Students interact with music, movies, software, and other digital content every day. Do they understand the rules that dictate the ethical use of these digital files, and do they understand why these issues are relevant?

When Lawrence Lessig published this book in the early 2000s he not only wrote a very readable book on the “culture of free” but he also spawned a movement that we today know as Creative Commons.

Students interact with music, movies, software, and other digital content every day. Do they understand the rules that dictate the ethical use of these digital files, and do they understand why these issues are relevant? The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program.

The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind has just been published by Yale University Press. The book is available under a Creative Commons License for free download or online reading at http://thepublicdomain.org

This book explains the different open source and free software licences. This book, by Andrew M. St. Laurent, can be read online for free.

There are many legal textbooks on the subject of intellectual property, or, more specifically, copyright. Briefing documents have also been produced which aim to make senior university managers and others in the field of education aware of the need to manage copyright so as to reduce institutional liability. This toolkit is not aimed specifically at these audiences. Instead, it provides practical, pragmatic advice, within an understanding of the legal framework, on how to license copyright works, who to approach, how best to approach them and how to negotiate the best deal.

"Internet for Image Searching" is a new, free online tutorial to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching.

Website which provides practical, pragmatic advice, within an understanding of the legal framework, on how to license copyright works, who to approach, how best to approach them and how to negotiate the best deal.

A project of Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law presents the ins-and-outs of public domain, fair use, & copyright law in an easy-to-understand format. US law but worth a look. Masterfu

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.

KWtL is a subscription only website which has been exclusively developed for specialist legal and copyright professionals

Produced jointly in April 2008 by the British Academy and the Publishers Association, these guidelines cover many of the issues inherent in copyright law.