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So you're the new Creative Commons expert? Congratulations! Here's what you'll need.
The document outlines the essentials of becoming a Creative Commons expert, explaining copyright concepts and the differences between free and open resources. It highlights the advantages of open access, various Creative Commons licenses, and the importance of properly attributing works. The guide addresses how to make work open and the considerations needed for using and evaluating open content.
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So you're the new Creative Commons expert? Congratulations! Here's what you'll need.
- 1. Congratulations! You’re thenew Creative Commons expert! Here’s what you’ll need.
- 2. © • Work oforiginal authorship • Fixed in a tangible medium of expression • All Rights Reserved ▫ Make copies ▫ Distribute copies ▫ Make derivative works ▫ Distribute derivative works ▫ Transfer or license the copyright
- 3. edu©ation • Educational Use(only ftf) • Fair Use (limited and risky online) • TEACH Act (lots of restrictions) • DMCA takedowns, cease and desists
- 4. edu©ation • Cost ofscholarly journals • Cost of textbooks
- 5. Solution! Dr. Lawrence Lessig •Former professor at Stanford Law • Copyright lawyer – many Supreme Court cases and amicus briefs • Founder of the Creative Commons
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- 7. Solution! • Creative Commons ▫Opt-in system of licenses ▫ Work within copyright ▫ Give away some rights to the user ▫ Limited by certain conditions ▫ Result is that the user doesn’t have to ask permission or pay to use.
- 8. A gift economyof information and culture
- 9. What kinds ofworks are Open? • Any kind of work that can be copyrighted, can be Open. • Some nuances: ▫ Open Educational Resources – learning objects with a CC license ▫ Open Textbooks – textbooks (either traditional or radically modular and participatory) with a CC license
- 10. Wait, what aboutOpen Access articles? • Scholarly articles that are Free, but not usually Open. ▫ No Creative Commons license. ▫ Freely available on the web, but you can’t copy, embed, remix, etc. • Despite that, they are part of the gift economy of information and a way to reduce the costs of education and scholarship.
- 11. So who paysfor it? • Open means the user never pays. • Possibilities: ▫ Grants (like IITG grant for SUNY Open Textbooks). ▫ Institution allocates funding. ▫ If cost is already sunk in creating the resource for local/internal use, making it Open costs practically nothing.
- 12. The return oninvestment • Less reinventing the wheel • Share your specialty niche far and wide • Take advantage of others’ specialty niches • Tweak content to suit local needs • Keep a copy of the version you like so it never disappears on you (unlike so many things on the Internet)
- 13. What’s the differencebetween Free and Open? Free Open • Available on the open web; no charge to access • Need permission to copy, distribute, perform, or display. May cost $. • Need permission to remix. May cost $. • Available on the open web; no charge to access • OK to copy, distribute, perform, and display without permission. • In most cases, OK to remix without permission. ▫ Exception is a CC No Derivative Works license.
- 14. What’s the differencebetween Free and Open? Free Open • You can link to it, nothing more. • It’s yours to do with as you see fit. ▫ As long as you attribute and link back to the original. ▫ In some cases, you can’t remix without additional permission.
- 15. Implications of Openness UpsidesDownsides • Lower cost to access/use the resource • Preservation ▫ Worried it will go away or change? Make your own copy! • Customization ▫ Not the right language, format, learning style, topic, etc? Change it! • Costs involved in finding, evaluating, and customizing the resource. • If you can’t host your own copy locally, you can’t be sure that it will always be there and be the same. • Traditional publishing has some good points! ▫ They take care of peer review for us. ▫ They simplify life for us by delivering information in an organized way.
- 16. What kinds ofCreative Commons licenses are there?
- 17. Attribution • No needto ask permission or pay • For the most lenient license ▫ Full citation ▫ Link back to the original work ▫ You can embed and remix!
- 18. Non-commercial ▫ If you’reusing this with your students, you’re fine. • Full citation • Link back to the original work • You can embed, adapt, translate, and remix
- 19. No Derivative Works •Full citation. • Link back to the original work. • You can embed, but not adapt, translate, remix, etc. without permission.
- 20. Share Alike • Fullcitation • Link back to the original work • You can embed, adapt, translate, and remix ▫ If you do that, you have to put a Creative Commons Share Alike license on YOUR new work and make it publicly available!
- 21. Non-commercial, share- alike • Fullcitation • Link to original work • No commercial or for-profit uses • Ok to embed • If you remix, adapt, or translate, you have to put your new work under a Share Alike Creative Commons license and make it publicly available Non-commercial, no derivative works • Full citation • Link to original work • No commercial or for-profit uses • Ok to embed • Can’t adapt, remix, or translate
- 22. Why open format? •Unless you have a No Derivative Works license, you licensing people to modify your content. That is an empty promise unless you: ▫ Give access to the source file ▫ Make sure the source file can be edited by anyone regardless of whether they can afford the software or can obtain the software in their part of the world.
- 23. Open Format Open formatsProprietary formats Txt, Pdf, Gif, Jpg, Png, Html, Xml, ePub, Ogg, Flac, Mp3, MP4, Html 5… Flv, Fv4, Aac, Wma, Doc, Xls, Ppt, Rtf, Swf, Xfa, Zip…
- 24. Barriers to openformat • Not all Creative Commons works are in an Open format, but many argue they should be. That may not be doable if your organization requires you to work with proprietary software and formats.
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- 26. Make it findable •Put it in a repository. Add metadata. ▫ Merlot ▫ OER Repositories ▫ Open Textbooks Repositories
- 27. Make it accessible •Everybody needs to be able to use it. ▫ People with vision/hearing impairments ▫ People with slow computers or bandwidth
- 28. When can Imake my work Open? • It belongs to you. ▫ If you have coauthors, they all have to agree. ▫ You can’t have transferred your copyright to a journal, publishing company, or institution.
- 29. When can Imake my work Open? • Co-owners of the work are ok with it. • Any material you include that’s not your own: ▫ Is under a Creative Commons license that allows derivative works. ▫ Is used with written permission from the copyright owner (specifically written permission to create a derivative work and make it Open.)
- 30. What about WorkFor Hire? • If you have faculty status: ▫ Any content that you create belongs to you, and you can make it Open. ▫ Exception: if you signed a letter of agreement transferring the copyright of that particular work over to the college. • If you are professional or clerical staff or community college faculty (varies by CC): ▫ If your supervisor says it’s ok to make it Open, go ahead.
- 31. How do Imake my work open?
- 32. How do Ifind Open (and Open Access) works?
- 33. How do Iknow if an Open work is any good? • We can’t rely on the textbook/scholarly journal publisher as a selector. As librarians and faculty, our professionalism won’t let us rely exclusively on that anyway. • Evaluating sources is Our Thing! We can do this!
- 34. How do Iknow if an Open work is any good? http://bit.ly /11nFrLX
- 35. What can Ido with Open Content? • First, always: ▫ Check the license! ▫ Give attribution and link back to the original! • For non-profit purposes, you can always copy, share, upload, download, send, embed, perform, display, etc. • You may also be able to adapt, revise, edit, update, remix, translate, etc.
- 36. Allies and partners •Instructional librarians • Reference librarians • Bibliographers • Technical services • Faculty liaisons • Faculty • Copyright office
- 37. Information and Professional Development •OER 101 • Creative Commons • Lawrence Lessig’s TED talks • OER on Educause • ESC Copyright Information Web Site • ESC Open Educational Resources Subject Guide
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