Images

The banner image comes from the Wikipedia article on Web 2.0. All images on Wikipedia are licensed under Creative Commons and can therefore be used on web sites. However, we also want to credit Markus Angermeier, who inspired the image with his own Web 2.0 mindmap available here. We then cropped the image to be the correct size, manipulated it somewhat to create more dark space where our title would be, and added the text "Introduction to Interactivity Online."

Corporate logos are used under Fair Use (a portion of U.S. Copyright Law), which allows for the limited use of copyrighted content. Company logos can be used on web sites under Fair Use, and this has been upheld numerous times in courts of law. So long as the site isn't using the logo to impersonate the site or do something that is blatantly malicious or deceptive, Fair Use applies.  A blog post by a trademark lawyer, Erik Heels explains that "If you are writing and commenting about a company, product, or famous person, then it's a no-brainer that it's fair use to use the company's logo, product image, or headshot in your blog post. To make the case for fair use even stronger, you can even change the logo to make a point...." Therefore, we didn't need to get permission to use such logos. That being said, we contacted companies when we could, and none that we contacted protested our use of the logo. Digg, for example, verified our intended use of their logo to illustrate their service was certainly permissable in our e-mail correspondence.

Finally, our favicon was used with permission of FreeFavicon.com.

Videos

The only videos on this site are two that we mirrored from Creative Commons. Creative Commons has two videos regarding the very interactivity we talk about. Read more about Creative Commons and their goals at their home page or our page on Creative Commons. These videos are naturally licensed under Creative Commons's own license and so we are authorized to mirror or embed them on our site.

Quizzes and Games

We used our own questions on the quizzes and the crossword puzzle game. However, we used HotPotatoes Half-Baked Software under an education license in our creation of these quizzes and crossword puzzle.

Written / Content

As explained above, our written content is sourced in the blue boxes on the right. So if you are interested in reading more on a particular topic, check our sources on that page. This is far more convenient than a laundry list of all of the sites we visited. However, because competition rules compel us to, here are the sites we used in the creation of our own site: