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Copyright & Creative Commons: Publishing with Open Licenses
The document discusses Open Educational Resources (OER) and their differences from traditional educational materials, highlighting that OER are released under open copyright licenses allowing for modification and sharing. It explains copyright basics, the role of Creative Commons licenses, and the principles of fair use, including the rights of authors and the public. Additionally, it outlines advantages of OER, such as cost savings and the ability to improve and remix educational content.
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Copyright & Creative Commons: Publishing with Open Licenses
- 1. COPYRIGHT & CREATIVE COMMONS: PUBLISHINGWITH LICENSES Meredith Jacob & Ethan Senack Creative Commons USA American University Washington College of Law Library Publishing Coalition – January 30, 2018 Unless otherwise noted, all slides licensed CC-BY 4.0 by Creative Commons United States
- 2. • What areOpen Educational Resources (OER) • How are they the same as traditional teaching and learning materials? • What makes them different? • Copyright basics • How OER with CC licenses work • Advantages • Examples of OER and steps to authorship • FAQ WHAT WE’LL COVER
- 3. Open Educational Resources(OER) are educational materials that are released under an open copyright license, rather than under traditional all rights reserved copyright. • Digital distribution and authorship • Public access and cost savings • Ability to improve, remix, and translate OER
- 4. Just like traditionalteaching materials, OER can be: • Textbooks – Slides – Images – Videos – Simulations – Problem Sets SIMILARITIES
- 5. Unlike traditional educationalmaterials, OER have been released under an open copyright license that allows users to: • Update and remix • Translate • Share new versions • Post online DIFFERENCES
- 6. Copyright law grantsto the author (or copyright owner) the exclusive right to: reproduce, make derivatives of, sell, distribute to the public, perform or display publicly, the copyrighted work, subject to fair use and other limitations and exceptions to copyright law. Copyright owners may assign all the rights in their copyright, or give limited licenses that allow others to make specific use of their works. WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?
- 7. Copyright law appliesto intellectual property that are “original works of authorship.” Common types of works protected by copyright include literary, artistic, and musical works. Copyright is automatic, so it applies as soon as the work has been created. Copyright protection in the United States lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years or 95 years for an institutional author. After this time period has expired, works fall into the public domain and are free from copyright restrictions. WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT PROTECT?
- 8. There are anumber of exceptions and limitations to copyright. Functional concepts, names, and logos are typically covered by patent or trademark law, if protected at all, rather than copyright. Copyright protects the specific expression of a work - the words - but not the underlying idea. ARE THERE LIMITS TO WHAT COPYRIGHT PROTECTS?
- 9. Fair use aallows the use of a copyrighted work without permission from the copyright holder under specific circumstances. News reporting, teaching, and parody are all examples of uses that could qualify as fair use. Fair use is evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and considers the purpose of the use, how much of the original work is used, and how it impacts the market for the original work. WHAT ABOUT FAIR USE?
- 10. • Works withinthe copyright system • Author still holds copyright to the work • Traditional licenses are one to one (negotiated) • Open licenses like the Creative Commons licenses are one to the public/one to many WHAT IS AN OPEN LICENSE?
- 11. Advantages • Takes advantagedigital distribution and authorship • Ability to improve, remix, and translate • Makes informal reuse formally permissible (and possible on the open internet) WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF AN OPEN LICENSE?
- 12. • Clearly communicatesto the public that the resource is free to reuse • Grants the public a license to access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, adapt, distribute, and otherwise use for any purposes • provided that the licensee gives attribution to the designated authors of the intellectual property. WHAT DOES A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE DO?
- 13. WHY AN OPENLICENSE?
- 14. Attribution. You requirethat anyone who uses your work attribute it’s original form to you. All licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first. Non-Commercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen No Derivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first. Share Alike. You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get permission. No Derivatives. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get permission first. CONSIDERATIONS
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- 17. Except where otherwisenoted, this work is licensed under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 THE CC LICENSE MARK AND LINK
- 18. THE HUMAN READABLEVERSION
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- 22. MARKING YOUR WORK ©2013 by CCSSO. Operational Best Practices for Statewide Large-Scale Assessment Programs 2013 Edition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 it is available at http://www.ccsso.org/Resources/Publications/Operational_ Best_Practices_for_Statewide_Large- Scale_Assessment_Programs.html
- 23. Open Educational Resourcesand Creative Commons Licenses by Meredith Jacob, slideshare.net/Meredith Jacob under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ATTRIBUTION EXAMPLE
- 24. • Customization – Sequencing –Examples – Combination • Cost – Day 1 access to materials • Collaboration – Openly share updates/remixes ADVANTAGES
- 25. • What rightsdoes the author retain? • Can content still be commercialized? • What about building new materials on openly licensed content? • What about materials that contain or builds on existing copyrighted content? – Licensed photos or passages – Combination with proprietary software QUESTIONS ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION - COPYRIGHT
- 26. • Creating OERequivalents for proprietary materials – Ideas are not protected by copyright – Short excerpts for illustration, criticism or review under fair use CREATING OPEN TEXTBOOKS
- 27. • Author Agreements –Model created with OTN: – http://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/adaptable- open-educational-resources-publishing- agreement/ • Who hold copyright? – Author or institution • What is the plan to update? – Author or institution • What license will we use CREATING OPEN BOOKS
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- 30. • creativecommonsusa.org • creativecommons.org •mjacob@wcl.american.edu • esenack@wcl.american.edu • slideshare.net/MeredithJacob OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN MORE