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I love TROVE ! This excellent resource provided by the National Library of Australia has become such a lifesaver when sourcing resources for the PIP and IRP that HSC students are starting at the moment. They recently sent me some posters and bookmarks too that the students have snapped up. Find and get over 250,253,831 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more
Fair Use of other peoples work is a concept I have been thinking about and discussing with my students. Dianne McKenzie from OZTLNET has sourced a number of resources / videos on the topic. (They are American, however Fair Use is an international understanding)
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/fair_use_in_online_video
http://mediaeducationlab.com/intro-video-code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education
The big issue is if the student is transforming the music into a new meaning, or is it just background music to set a mood? If it is background
music to set the mood, then it is not adding any more value to the music, as it was intended to set a mood. But, if it is used in a way which is
different from the intended purpose,(such as parody) then it is Fair Use. If it just to set a mood there are a number of places where you can get free ‘mood’ creative commons music.
See here for a list of sites that host Creative commons music
http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos
Usually all they ask is for attribution.