The document discusses fair use and creative commons as they relate to using media in education. Fair use allows sharing and distributing copyrighted materials for educational purposes without permission, considering factors like purpose, nature of work, amount used, and effect on the market. Educators can use copyrighted media in curriculums and students can use it in works that create new content. Creative Commons licenses allow creators to choose how their works are shared or used, enabling collaborative creation based on existing works. Different CC licenses determine if attribution, commercial use, derivatives, and sharing are allowed.