The Creative Commons v.3.0 Greece licenses as Free Culture applications for the promotion of Open Educational Resources

The Creative Commons v. 3.0 Greece licenses
as Free Culture applications
for the promotion of Open Educational Resources

Dionysia Kallinikou
Associate Professor of Law at Athens Law School, University of Athens, Project Lead Creative Commons Greece

Marinos Papadopoulos
Attorney-at-Law J.D., M.Sc., Legal Lead Creative Commons Greece

Theodoros Karounos
T.A./Researcher at Network & Optimal Design Laboratory NETMODE, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National
Technical University of Athens, Project Lead Creative Commons Greece

Dionysia Kallinikou, Marinos Papadopoulos, Theodoros Karounos

| URL: www.marinos.com.gr

The disruptive energies of ICTs & IP networks
The future of the learning process lies in seamless
access to educational resources most of them
available through ICTs and IP networks.
As ICTs and IP networks inherently produce and
communicate copyrighted material in their normal
process of operation, they activate the potential for
copyright infringement.
We need to encourage the existing copyright legal
framework to accommodate the disruptive energies of
ICTs & IP networks in a way that promotes access to
educational resources.


Copyright law in Greece
L.2121/1993 as amended.
Section IV of Law 2121/1993 (articles 18 et al.—
Limitations on the economic right).
In most cases of reproduction of copyrighted
material, unless permission is granted by the intellectual
property right-holder, you are not allowed to reproduce
or communicate copyrighted material. Permission for
exercising the right for reproduction of copyrighted
material must be granted in writing otherwise it is null
and void.



The Creative Commons Main Idea & Vision
Main idea: the need to ask copyright owners whether
they are willing to agree and give permission in print for
their material to be shared through a generic license
that acts as permission granted in advance.
Vision: a space in the Internet where people could
share and reuse copyrighted material without the fear
of being sued.



Creative Commons Corporation
2001: Creative Commons Corp. by Lawrence Lessig,
Hal Abelson, James Boyle, Michael Carroll, Eric Eldred,
Eric Saltzman, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Diane
Cabell.
CC has evolved into a worldwide movement.
CC aims to make copyrighted content more easy to
use and accessible for use by ensuring that content
can be reutilised with a minimum of transactional effort.



The Creative Commons in Greece
October 13, 2007: CC v.3.0 GREECE licenses are
available through the URL:
http://creativecommons.org/international/gr
Mirroring in Greek: F.A.Q., works on CC, etc., in Greek
through the URL:
http://creativecommons.gr
CC-GR community in FACEBOOK:



Creative Commons in Greece
Legal Leads: Marinos Papadopoulos & Prodromos
Tsiavos
Project Leads: Dionysia Kallinikou & Theodoros
Karounos
Affiliate Institution: Greek Research & Technology
Network s.a.
From left to right: Dr. Alexios Zavras,
Theodoros Karounos (Project Lead CC-GR),
Prof. Dionysia Kallinikou (Project Lead CCGR), Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Prof.
Panagiotis Tsanakas, (President GRNET s.a.)
& Marinos Papadopoulos (Legal Lead, CCGR)



Creative Commons
as tools for Open Educational Resources
CC: the most notable tools in the arsenal of legal
means seen as implementation resources for pushing
ahead the agenda of Open Educational Resources.
While “open” means “without cost”, it does not follow
that it also means “without conditions”.
OER: conditional use of educational resources
available in an information commons.



Open Educational Resources
UNESCO 2002: the open provision of educational
resources in the form of digitized materials, offered
freely and openly for educators, students, and selflearners to use and reuse for teaching, learning, and
research, which are accessible mainly through ICTs and
IP networks and are available for consultation, use and
adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes.



Open Educational Resources
Learning content: full courses, courseware packs,
content modules, collections, journals etc.
Tools: software to support the development, use and
reuse, delivery of content, searching mechanisms for
locating content, learning management systems,
content development tools, communities for content
aggregation etc.
Implementation resources: Creative Commons
licenses which promote open publishing of materials,
design principles and policies that mandate the
provisions upon which content is accessible and
available for use, reuse, adaptation etc.



Freedoms
freedom to study a work and apply knowledge
offered from it.
freedom to redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of
a work.
freedom to make improvements or other changes,
i.e. to make adaptations, to the content of a work, and
the freedom to release modified copies of it.



The 6 Creative Commons v.3.0 Greece licenses
Attribution
Attribution + Share-Alike
Attribution + Non-Derivatives
Attribution + Non-Commercial
Attribution + Non-Commercial + NonDerivatives
Attribution + Non-Commercial + Share-Alike


Attribution
The user is free:
1.
To share, i.e. to copy, distribute, and transmit the
licensed work
2.
To remix, i.e. to adapt the licensed work
On condition that the user:
Attributes the work in a manner specified by the
author or licensor



Attribution + Share-Alike
The user is free:
1. To share, i.e. to copy, distribute, and transmit the
licensed work
2. To remix, i.e. to adapt the licensed work
author or licensor.
If he/she alters, transforms, or builds upon the
licensed work, he/she distributes the resulting work
only under the same, similar or compatible license.



Attribution + Non-Derivatives
The user is free:
licensed work
author or licensor.
Refrains from any remixing of the work, i.e. does not
attempt to create any derivative works from the
work in the meaning of any effort to alter, transform,
or build upon the licensed work.



Attribution + Non-Commercial
The user is free:
licensed work
author or licensor.
Refrains from any commercial exploitation of the
work, i.e. does not attempt to use the licensed work
for any commercial purpose.



Attribution + Non-Commercial + Non-Derivatives
The user is free:
licensed work
author or licensor.
Refrains from any remixing of the work, i.e. does not
attempt to create any derivative works from the
work in the meaning of any effort to alter, transform,
or build upon the licensed work.


Attribution + Non-Commercial + Share-Alike
The user is free:
licensed work
author or licensor.
If he/she alters, transforms, or builds upon the
licensed work, he/she distributes the resulting work
only under the same, similar or compatible license.


Recommendations for the development of
Open Educational Resources in Greece
1.

Each institution should develop and publish its
policy on open access, clearly declaring its
objectives and interests in providing materials by
this means.
a. Guidance on the development of
institutional open access policies, outlining
different models of open access and
providing means for determining and
reviewing the categories of materials which
are to be made available by open access
and the scope of open access which is to
be afforded, in terms of classes of persons
who are to be allowed access and the
external rights granted to access and reuse
of the materials.


b.

c.

d.

Examples of model institutional open access
policies accompanied by explanatory
statements of each open access policy.
Guidance on matters to be considered
when formally allocating responsibility to an
appropriate office within the institution’s
governance structure, in order to ensure
appropriate ongoing administration of the
open access policy.
Guidance on the operation of copyright
and contract in structuring an open access
system.



2.

3.

Identify the various stakeholders and their
respective roles, describe the legal relationships
among them, and understand how copyright
interests are allocated among them and how the
Creative Commons licenses can serve such an
allocation.
Address conjointly and make decisions about the
following factors for the sustainability of Open
Educational Resources projects:



a.

b.
c.
d.
e.
f.

The size, structure, and degree of
centralization of the organization which will
implement an Open Educational Resources
project.
The types of resources it will offer and the
media formats in which these resources will
be shared.
The types of the end user reuse that are
most likely to help the project meet its goals.
Incentives for engaging as many
participants as possible.
Ways to reduce costs while still meeting the
Open Educational Resources goals.
Choose among the many available funding
models the one which is most likely to result
in levels of funding sufficient to allow the
Open Educational Resources project to
survive.



Examples of OER using CC: PLoS
Medical literature freely available under CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: Online Opinion
Leading Australian journal for social & political debate
using CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: ARCO
Repository of radio tracks, images etc using CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: OYEZ
Recorded oral arguments and bench statements in the
Supreme Court of the U.S.A. using CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: OPSOUND
Record Label & repository of music using CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: Flickr
Repository of photos & videos using CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: Four Docs
Repository of 4-min. documnetaries by Channel 4 TV
using CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: BBC C.A.
BBC Creative Archive is a repository of video-clips of
BBC programs using CC licenses



Examples of OER using CC: Microsoft Corp.
MS copyright licensing tool (Add-in application) that
enables the attachment of CC licenses to works
created in MS Office applications.



The Creative Commons v. 3.0 Greece licenses
as Free Culture applications
for the promotion of Open Educational Resources

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