OER IPR Support

• 1.CreativeCommonsUK Good Practice in Rights Clearance and Licensing Naomi Korn IP Consultant 28/01/2015 1www.web2rights.org.uk

2. CreativeCommonsUK Licence to Use This presentation and its contents, apart from the Microsoft Clip Art images and logo, has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 UK: England and Wales Licence 3. CreativeCommonsUK 4. CreativeCommonsUK Layers of Rights: Layers of Issues Microsoft clip art 5. CreativeCommonsUK A Mosaic of Rights Microsoft clip art 6. CreativeCommonsUK 28/01/2015 www.web2rights.org.uk 6 - Final Version 7. CreativeCommonsUK Role of Licences Licences are tools to facilitate IP transactions i.e. get permissions Many different types of licences (transactional, open, blanket etc) Licences in (permissions granted from third party) Licences out (permissions granted to third party) Even CC licensed stuff may not be compatible with other CC licensed stuff 8. CreativeCommonsUK Compatibility of licences in/out www.web2rights.org.uk28/01/2015 8 9. CreativeCommonsUK 10. CreativeCommonsUK IPR as part of project planning Understanding your uses and those of your end users Identifying rights requiring clearance Tracing rights holders Getting permission Horses for courses Make it easy for rights holders to consent Level playing field: rights in and rights out Cover your funding bodies! Rights Management Due Diligence Risk Management Earmark human and financial resources Time management BUT Orphan Works as disruption to rights clearance strategy Developing Rights Clearance Strategies 11. CreativeCommonsUK Legal risks Loss of trust Creating dysfunctional relationships Rights holders Funding bodies Staff in your own organisation Members of consortium Not leading by example Risks of Not Clearing Rights 12. CreativeCommonsUK Still a risk whose risk and how prepared are they? Legal risks are not the only ones! Risk management and Due Diligence Important factors: Nature of rights holders Understanding rights holders remedies Nature of use Reputation of user Extent of audience Communication to the Public How quickly and in what ways can the situation be remedied? Risk Management 13. CreativeCommonsUK Top Tips Ideally OER should be reusable and repurposable You cant license out if you havent enough permissions: licences in and out need to be compatible! Give yourselves plenty of time Layers of rights Be flexible and remember you can embed individual pieces of content with diff. CC licences Contact IPR Support Project for Help 14. CreativeCommonsUK Microsoft clip art Give Yourselves Enough 15. CreativeCommonsUK OER IPR Support www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport SCA IPR Toolkit http//sca.jiscinvolve.org Web2Rights www.web2rights.org.uk WATCH http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ Bridgeman Art Library www.bridgeman.co.uk DACS www.dacs.org.uk Useful Resources 16. CreativeCommonsUK Contacting Us For Advice, Support and Access to Resources www.jisclegal.ac.uk/OERIPRSupport For general information about us and our project; [email protected] 17. CreativeCommonsUK Thank You! Naomi Korn [email protected]