copyright and creative commons licensing
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COPYRIGHT AND
CREATIVE COMMONS
LICENSINGGlenda Cox
2017
A collection of exclusive rights, given to creators and
authors to protect their original works
Definition of copyright
What can be copyrighted? – Any work which is not
an exact copy of someone else’s work
Can ideas be copyrighted? No… only expression
of ideas are copyrighted...
Can copyright be transferred? Yes, an author can
assign copyright to another person, as in the case
of property
Meaning of Terms
May not reproduce
Fair use / Fair dealing for
classroom use
Permission / royalty payments
for reproduction
May not use on the Internet
All rights reserved
Traditional © designed
for old distribution
models
The problem:
Glenda Cox @GlencoxMore
"Legal, copyright and IP is
everyone's business". Laura
Czerniewicz. #OASymp2016@ROER4D @CILT_UCT
5:19 AM - 8 Dec 2016
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Alternative copyright licensing
Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained or public domain
Now alternative licensing options such as the GNU General Public License and Creative Commons provide a range of options where some rights are reserved
Public
Domain
Copyright©
Public
Domain
Some rights reserved Copyright©
In 2017 1.1 billion
works were
licenced under
Creative
Commons
Attribution
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike
Attribution - NonCommercial
Attribution - NoDerivs
Attribution - ShareAlike
*CC0 (public domain dedication)
Creative Commons licenses
Some rights reserved but sharing made easy and legal.
Creators have choice
Summary - Open Licenses
Work posted
on Flickr
under
Attribution
license
Used in The Iron Man feature film
• If resource falls under copyright protection, either:
o Recreate the resources using office or online tools
o Replace the resource with a similar resource by finding an open source alternative or by creating your own resource
o Obtain permission from the author, publisher, editor, organization who holds the copyright
o Reconsider if the resource is really necessary
Evaluating the media resources within your resource
Copyright of
pictures
graphics
texts
Understand the rights of copyright holders
Take care to check
Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
Title
Author
Source – Link to work
License – Name + Link
House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND
http://google.com/docshttp://www.gliffy.com/
Recreating Images
Licensing your work is easy. No
registration is required.
You simply add a notice that your work is
under CC BY.
Here’s how you do that
You can edit the text for your specific
project.
Go back to:
http://creativecommons.org/choose
Legal and Technical
Legal Code, Human Readable Deed, Meta-Data
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Paste where you usually put CC info
Copyright and Creative Commons by Glenda Cox is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.
Practice exercise:
See Paul Stacey’s OER presentations at
http://www.slideshare.net/pstacey
Thanks to Shihaam Shaikh for examples
of adapting images
Thanks to Ramesh Sharma for slides on
copyright
Attribution:
http://opencontent.org/game/
OER Remix game
Group task
How: via general search
How to find OER
via search engines
How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://w
ww
.goo
gle
.com
/advanced_searc
h
How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://w
ww
.goo
gle
.com
/advanced_searc
h
How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://w
ww
.goo
gle
.com
/advanced_searc
h
How: via general search (Creative Commons Search)
http://search.creativecommons.org/
How: via photo/image search (Google Advanced
Image Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
How: via photo/image search (Creative Commons
Search)
http://search.creativecommons.org/
How: via photo/image search (Creative Commons
Search)
Google Images via
http://search.creativecommons.org/
How: via video search (YouTube through CC Search)
http://search.creativecommons.org/
How: via video search (YouTube through CC Search)
YouT
ube v
ia h
ttp:/
/se
arc
h.c
reativecom
mons.o
rg/
Where: general OER directories
www.oerafrica.org/
https://amser.org/
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
www.readwritethink.org/
https://p2pu.org/en/
www.saylor.org/
www.klascement.net/?hl=en
Where: Recorded lectures & video tutorial platforms
www.khanacademy.org/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
http://oyc.yale.edu/
www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/
Where: Open Book/Textbook directories
www.gutenberg.org/
www.openculture.com/free_textbooks
www.intratext.com/
www.siyavula.com/
www.ck12.org/
www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
http://openstaxcollege.org/
http://open.bccampus.ca/
Where: Presentation sources
www.slideshare.net/
https://speakerdeck.com/
www.slidesnack.com/
www.authorstream.com/share-presentations-
online/
Where: Simulation and animation sources
www.bitstrips.com/
http://xkcd.com/
https://phet.colorado.edu/
http://bestanimations.com/
Where: Modular course components
www.wikiversity.org/
www.curriki.org/http://cnx.org/
www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
www.jorum.ac.uk/
Task
Find 2 or 3 OER that you can use in your
module or teaching, i.e. a video, slides,
infographic, simulation. Take care to record the
license
Credits
Prepared by: Finding OER slides:
Henry Trotter – [email protected] /
Slides inspired by the presentations of Paul Stacey, Shihaam
Shaikh and the Open Professionals Education Network
(OPEN).
See Paul Stacey’s OER presentations at:
http://www.slideshare.net/pstacey
See Shihaam Shaikh’s “Finding Open Stuff” presentation at:
https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/2346
See also the “Find OER” site by the Open Professionals