A basic introduction, plus a dew slides on where to find OER

1. COPYRIGHT AND
CREATIVE COMMONS
LICENSING
Glenda Cox
2017

2. A collection of exclusive rights, given to creators and
authors to protect their original works
Definition of copyright

3.  What can be copyrighted? – Any work which is not
an exact copy of someone else’s work
 Can ideas be copyrighted? No… only expression
of ideas are copyrighted...
 Can copyright be transferred? Yes, an author can
assign copyright to another person, as in the case
of property
Meaning of Terms

4.  May not reproduce
 Fair use / Fair dealing for
classroom use
 Permission / royalty payments
for reproduction
 May not use on the Internet
All rights reserved

6. Traditional © designed
for old distribution
models
The problem:

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"Legal, copyright and IP is
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8. Alternative copyright licensing
Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained or public
domain
Now alternative licensing options such as the GNU General
Public License and Creative Commons provide a range of
options where some rights are reserved
Public
Domain
Copyright©
Public
Domain
Some rights reserved Copyright©

9. In 2017 1.1 billion
works were
licenced under
Creative
Commons

10. Attribution
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike
Attribution - NonCommercial
Attribution - NoDerivs
Attribution - ShareAlike
*CC0 (public domain dedication)
Creative Commons licenses

11. Some rights reserved but sharing made easy and legal.
Creators have choice

12. Summary - Open Licenses

13. Work posted
on Flickr
under
Attribution
license

14. Used in The Iron Man feature film

15. • If resource falls under copyright protection, either:
o Recreate the resources using office or online tools
o Replace the resource with a similar resource by
finding an open source alternative or by creating your
own resource
o Obtain permission from the author, publisher, editor,
organization who holds the copyright
o Reconsider if the resource is really necessary
Evaluating the media resources within your resource

16.  Copyright of
 pictures
 graphics
 texts
Understand the rights of copyright holders
Take care to check

17. Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
 Title
 Author
 Source – Link to work
 License – Name + Link
House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND

18. http://google.com/docs
http://www.gliffy.com/
Recreating Images

19. Licensing your work is easy. No
registration is required.
You simply add a notice that your work is
under CC BY.
Here’s how you do that 

22. You can edit the text for your specific
project.
Go back to:
http://creativecommons.org/choose

24. Legal and Technical
Legal Code, Human Readable Deed, Meta-Data
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

25. Paste where you usually put CC info
Copyright and Creative Commons by Glenda Cox is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.

26. Practice exercise:
See Paul Stacey’s OER presentations at
http://www.slideshare.net/pstacey
Thanks to Shihaam Shaikh for examples
of adapting images
Thanks to Ramesh Sharma for slides on
copyright
Attribution:
http://opencontent.org/game/

27. OER Remix game
Group task

28. How: via general search
How to find OER
via search engines

29. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

30. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_searc

31. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_searc

32. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

33. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_searc

34. How: via general search (Creative Commons Search)
http://search.creativecommons.org/

35. How: via photo/image search (Google Advanced
Image Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

36. How: via photo/image search (Creative Commons
Search)
http://search.creativecommons.org/

37. How: via photo/image search (Creative Commons
Search)
Google Images via

38. How: via video search (YouTube through CC Search)
http://search.creativecommons.org/

39. How: via video search (YouTube through CC Search)
YouTubeviahttp://search.creativecommons.org/

40. Where: general OER directories
www.oerafrica.org/
https://amser.org/
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
www.readwritethink.org/
https://p2pu.org/en/
www.saylor.org/
www.klascement.net/?hl=en

41. Where: Recorded lectures & video tutorial platforms
www.khanacademy.org/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
http://oyc.yale.edu/
www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/

42. Where: Open Book/Textbook directories
www.gutenberg.org/
www.openculture.com/free_textbooks
www.intratext.com/
www.siyavula.com/
www.ck12.org/
www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
http://openstaxcollege.org/
http://open.bccampus.ca/

43. Where: Presentation sources
www.slideshare.net/
https://speakerdeck.com/
www.slidesnack.com/
www.authorstream.com/share-presentations-
online/

44. Where: Simulation and animation sources
www.bitstrips.com/
http://xkcd.com/
https://phet.colorado.edu/
http://bestanimations.com/

45. Where: Modular course components
www.wikiversity.org/
www.curriki.org/
http://cnx.org/
www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
www.jorum.ac.uk/

46. Task
 Find 2 or 3 OER that you can use in your
module or teaching, i.e. a video, slides,
infographic, simulation. Take care to record the
license

47. Credits
Prepared by: Finding OER slides:
Henry Trotter – henry.trotter@uct.ac.za /
trotterhenry@hotmail.com
Slides inspired by the presentations of Paul Stacey, Shihaam
Shaikh and the Open Professionals Education Network
(OPEN).
See Paul Stacey’s OER presentations at:
http://www.slideshare.net/pstacey
See Shihaam Shaikh’s “Finding Open Stuff” presentation at:
https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/2346