Copyright is some thing that we are hopefully all aware of and yet I have always had the feeling that people are happy to slide around the regulations if possible.  I can remember it being very frustrating when I worked in a public library environment when you had to tell someone that the could not copy their Ordnance Survey map or make 30 copies of a song for their Choir; they then went around to the local newsagent and did it anyway.  There are similar problems in schools, although they do have CLA licenses which give them wider use than the general public.  However, some staff seem to think it entitles them to do almost anything they want to do.  School librarians need to be constantly on their guard in this respect.

Of course it is not just the written word that has issues.  Images, music, even logos cannot be used without permission, but I quite frequently see slide shows with music and you know that it is probably copyright but they have just used their own CD to provide the background.  Very frustrating.  I have just done a MOOC on digital storytelling which was fascinating but which brought several of these issues in to focus.  Most of the students used images from Creative Commons and used the attribution system for both the pictures and for any music they used in the background.  It was surprisingly difficult to choose the right music in particular because even cutting off a few seconds of the theme could be seen as breaking the terms and conditions, so you have to be very precise about the attribution and the timings.

Basically, think of copyright as a bit of a minefield and be very careful to check what you are doing.  The article on the Rudai blog was extremely useful as it brought us up to date in a concise and understandable way, so thank you very much for that.