Copyright and Creative Commons licensing

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] /

[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