Creative Commons cartoons

My students are producing content at a rate that continues to astound me.  Through our pathfinders, we lead them to Creative Commons licensed content to use in their productions whenever possible.

While I often remind learners that they can and should apply a CC license to their own work, I wished I had some cool way to illustrate how and why. 

I’ve been using the wonderful videos on the Creative Commons site with students and teachers, but I was delighted that Melissa Techman shared these handy cartoons over Twitter today.

Designed by Neeru Paharia, with illustrations by Ryan Junell and photos by Matt Haughey, these clever illustrations do a great job simplifying a complicated topic and are also available as a slide show:

Here are direct links to comics:

• Spectrum of Rights Comic 1
• Spectrum of Rights Comic 2
• Spectrum of Rights Comic 3
• Spectrum of Rights Comic 4

• How it Works Comic 1
• How it Works Comic 2
• How it Works Comic 3
• How it Works Comic 4