Virtual copyright and Open Educational Resources (OER)

Virtual copyright and Open Educational Resources (OER)

2nd & 3rd June 2015

Delia BrowneNational Copyright Director

National Copyright Unit www.smartcopying.edu.au

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Smartcopying Website

• National Copyright Guidelines for Schools and TAFEs

• Practical and simple information sheets and FAQs

• Interactive teaching resources on copyright

• Search the site for answers to your copyright questions

www.smartcopying.edu.au

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Education….

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No longer means this…

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Now means this…

Do you remember the world without the internet and all the innovations affecting the internet?

1998:

• Google

1999:

• Napster

2001:

• Wikipedia

2001:

• Paypal

2003:

• Myspace and Linkedin

2004:

• flickr

2005:

• YouTube

2006:

• Facebook and Twitter

2007:

• iPhone2010:

• Pinterest ; Instagram; Apple iPad

2011:

• Google Plus and Kindle Fire

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Copyright today

Limited exceptions:

s 200AB – flexible dealings

s 28 – performance & communication in class

Statutory licences:

Pt VA – copying TV and radio

Pt VB – copying print

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National Copyright Licence Fees

Nearly $90 million per year for the school sector

On top of this schools spend over $665 million per year

purchasing educational content

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Copyright in essence

Gives the copyright owner the right to:• copy

• perform

• communicate to the public

the copyright material.

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Copying Activities

scanning downloading

printing Saving to usb/hardrive

Photocopying

Saving to mobile phone / smartphone / iPod / iPad

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Upload to cloud

Performance Activities

playing films and sound recordings

singing songs

playing instruments

acting out a play

reciting a poem

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Communication Activities

make available to students online

(intranet, LMS, wiki, etc)

Email to students

display on interactive whiteboard

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Snapshot Summary

Part VB Copying limits:

10% or 1 chapter Attach notice if

communicating.

Part VANo copying

limits.Can format

shift.Attach notice if

communicating.

s.200ABLimited format

shifting rights.You cannot buy it.Only copy what

you need.

Schools’ music licence

Images or print works

Off air television and radio broadcasts

Podcasts of free-to-air broadcasts (available on the broadcaster’s website)

YouTube videos

DVDs and videos

Note: Most commercial DVDs are protected by ATPMs and cannot be copied because it illegal to circumvent an ATPM.

Cassette tapes and CDs

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Copied and Communicated Under

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LinkLabelLimitArchive contentConsider OER

Smartcopying:

Some Copyright Challenges

• The current collective copyright regime is expensive, restrictive and complicated. • Educator’s valuable time is spent trying to understand complex copyright rules

and seeking permission to use education resources.

• Australian schools pay over $665 million purchasing education resources each year. • These resources cannot be modified, shared or remixed by teachers and

students except in very limited circumstances. 

• Many teachers believe they are allowed to use material made freely available on the internet for free in their classes.  This is not the case.  • Teachers downloading, saving, printing or emailing pages will attract fees payable

under the education statutory licence.  

• Currently the schools' national copyright fees paid to collecting societies are approximately $90 million a year.

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The solution….

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Open Educational Resources

• Safer: free to reuse, remix, redistribute and adapt education resources without running the risk of breaching the complex copyright rules.

• Internet compatible: it is better adapted to the Internet and the freedom which the Internet provides to copy, distribute, adapt and remix resources.

• Enabler: enables educators to reuse, remix and adapt resources since the copyright owner has already given permission to everyone.

• Accessible: over 800 million CC-licensed works.

• Collaborative: encourages collaboration and creates communities based on sharing of education resources

• Cheaper: saves money on copyright fees and administrative costs of seeking permission and allows education resources to be shared freely online with very low transaction costs.

• Equitable: offers equal access to knowledge for everyone and allows for education resources to be adapted for minorities and those with disabilities.

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http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources

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OpenEducationalResources

“Nearly one-third of the world’s population (29.3%) is under 15. Today there are 158 million people enrolled in tertiary education1. Projections suggest that that participation will peak at 263 million2 in 2025. Accommodating the additional 105 million students would require more than four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years. 1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures2 British Council and IDP Australia projections CC BY – C Green 2007

OER are…

teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been

released under an open licence that permits their free use and re-

purposing by others.

OER: Fundamental Values

OER share some fundamental values:

• Resources are free for any individual to use

• Are licensed for unrestricted distribution

• Possibility of adaptation, translation, re-mix, and improvement.

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OER in a nutshell

OER is about creating repositories of materialwhich are free to:

AccessUse

ModifyShare

You can do more with OER as compared with 'traditional' copyright material

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OER in Australia is Growing• Australia is one of the signatories of the Paris Declaration on Open Education Resources

• All State and Territory Departments of Education have endorsed AusGOAL

• All Australian Departments of Education to licence their websites and publications under CC BY 4.0 where possible

• Already completed: Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland

• The non- government school sector is also beginning to license their learning resources under CC licenses to ensure wider sharing

• Other OER initiatives include:

• Education Services Australia licensing more than 1600 digital learning resources from the national digital resources collection under CC licences (http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/lobjects.htm)

• The Australian Curriculum (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au) is licensed under a CC BY NC SA licence

• ACARA is in the process of licensing www.acara.edu.au; www.naplan.edu.au; www.australiancurriculum.edu.au under CC BY 4.0

• The National Copyright Unit actively encourages businesses and organisations who wish to provide educational resources to the school sector to also licence their material under either CC BY or CC BY SA.

• Recent organisations include Unicef Australia and the National Rugby League.

• The Australian Schools sector is actively encouraged to use OER in preference to closed publicly funded educational resources. See http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources.

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A simple, standardizedway to grant copyright

permissions to your creative work.

CC BY – C Green 2007

Attribution

Non-Commercial No Derivative Works

Share Alike

CC BY – C Green 2007

Step 1: Choose Licence Conditions

Step 2: Receive a License

CC BY – C Green 2007

Step 2: Receive a Licence

Nearly 1 billion items

CC BY – C Green 2011

Best ways to find OER

Google Advanced Search

OER Commons Advanced Search

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Google Advanced Search

• Step 1. Start a Google Advanced Search

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Google Advanced Search

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• Step 2. Filter results for what you want to do

Google Advanced Search

• The table below shows how the drop-down menu filters the material by licence.

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Filtering options

Not filtered by license*

Use or share Use or share, even

commercially

Use, share or modify

Use, share or modify, even commercially

Resu

lts

by lic

ence

BY BY-NC BY-ND BY-SA

BY-NC-SA BY-NC-ND

*Please note that although this option will theoretically return results under a Creative Commons licence, these will be amongst potentially millions of returned results that are not CC licensed.

OER Commons

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OER Commons Advanced Search

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Top 6 Places to find OER

• OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org/

• Curriki: http://www.curriki.org/

• CK-12: http://www.ck12.org/teacher/

• Connexions: http://cnx.org/

• Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/

• The Orange Grove: http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do

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Other OER Sites

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• Open Textbooks• ck-12• Wikibooks• Boundless

• Video Tutorials• Khan Academy

• General Education Search• The Orange Grove Digital Repository• Connexions • Curriki• WikiEducator• Saylor Academy• Wikiversity• LiveBinder by Karen Fasimpaur

- Open Educational resources: Share, Remix, Learn

• Open Education Europa

• Audio/Music Search• Jamendo• ccMixter• Free Music Archive• SoundCloud

• Video Search• YouTube• Vimeo• Ted – Ideas Worth Spreading • Al Jazeera

• Photo/Image Search • CC Search • Wikimedia Commons• Flickr• Pixabay• Europeana• Open Clip Art Library • Encyclopedia of Life• Public Library of Science

OER Repository on: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources

Slides available @ http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (unless otherwise noted)

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Image credits

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Slide 3 bernardoh http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardoh/2846197912/

Slide 4 flickingerbrad flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6660091109/

danceinthesky http://www.flickr.com/photos/funksoup/81909343/sizes/o/

kakissel http://www.flickr.com/photos/kakissel/6165114664/

misterbisson http://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/480047671/

ransomtechhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ransomtech/7112676365/in/set-72157626379117244/

Slide 16opensource.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4378920267

Slide 17 C Greenhttp://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/sloan-the-obviousness-of-open-policy

Slide 22Kristina Alexanderson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6051120264/

Delia BrowneNational Copyright Director

[email protected](02) 9561 8876

www.smartcopying.edu.au

slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit

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More Information

Useful Links

• OER in Australia: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/where-to-find-oer-materials/oer-in-australia

• OER Guides and Toolkits: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/useful-oer-guides-and-toolkits

• Creative Commons Information Pack for teachers and students: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/cc-information-pack-for-teachers-and-students

• Where to find CC licensed materials: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/where-to-find-cc-licensed-material

• Videos on OER: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/videos-on-oer

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