Activity on Copyright and Open Licensing

Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

Activity on Copyright and Open Licensing

Sanjaya MishraEducation Specialist, eLearning, COLPrincipal Investigator, ROER4D

Copyright Quiz

Q.1: True or False‘Public Domain’ means the work is available to public on the open through the web.

Answer: False‘Public Domain’ means work that are copyright expired or explicitly identified as PD by the author.

Copyright Quiz

Q.2: True or FalseExpression of facts can be copyrighted.

Answer: TrueFacts cannot be copyrighted, but the way a writer states or expresses those facts can be copyrighted.

Copyright Quiz

Q.3: Choose the right answerFair use is:(a) the right to copy a work in entirety(b) a defense against copy right infringement(c) a right of teachers to make copies(d) right to download anything available online

Answer: (b)Fair use is about use of work for review, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching … scholarship or research.

Copyright Quiz

Q.4: Choose the right answer To be able to use © symbol, a work must be:(a) original(b) available in an expressed form (writing, voice, video,

picture)(c) of professional quality(d) Owned by a corporate entityAnswer: (b)Availability of the work in a physical form is important to establish copyright.

Copyright Quiz

Q.5: Choose the right answer The term of copyright in India :(a)Lasts for the life of the author plus 60 years(b)Depends on copyright notice(c)Lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years(d)Is different for individual authors and corporate authors.

Answer: (a)The years vary from country to country, but in India it is up to 60 years post the death of the author.

Copyright Quiz

Q.6: Choose the right answer Fair use is decided on the basis of:(a) Amount of work copied(b) Effect on the commercial market of the original work(c) Purpose of the use(d) All the above.

Answer: (d)While deciding ‘fair use’ a range of issues are covered.

Copyright Quiz

Q.7: True or FalseCentral to the concept of copyright is the idea that you own and have control over anything that you create.

Answer: TrueCreator of the work or the author has all the rights.

Copyright Quiz

Q.8: Choose the right answer Which of the following are in public domain?(a) A book published in 2014(b) Works of Prem Chand(c) A book published in 1950 whose author died last year(d) A shareware computer programAnswer: (b)Copyright expired case.

Copyright Quiz

Q.9: Choose the right answer Which of the following is not correct purpose of copyright?(a)Enable copyright owners to silence their critics(b)Enable authors to promote and share their work for

economic gains(c)Promote the progress of the arts, culture, and literature(d)Give creators an incentive to create

Answer: (a)Copyright does not give approval of any views.

Copyright Quiz

Q.10: Yes or NoYou have purchased a computer program and install it in three computers in your department, Is this violation of copyright?

Answer: YesYou may be owning it for personal use and not installing the same in other computers.

OER Remix: Recap

OER Remix: Recap

Remix Case 1 Consider a publication where

the author has identified the following to be included. Decide what license should be needed and how you will go about it.– Original texts plus, images from

CC-BY-SA, also texts from CC-BY-NC.

– Author has also indicated use of some Copyrighted materials, and have permission to be used by your institution

Remix Case 2 Consider a publication where the

author has identified the following to be included. Decide what license should be needed and how you will go about it.– Original texts plus, images and

texts from PD– Author has also indicated use of

some texts from CC-BY sources– There are large number of

images from online sources, the author has not credited

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