Copyright and Open Licensing
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like790 views
This document discusses copyright and open licensing. It defines key terms like author, creator, copyright and what can be copyrighted. Copyright gives the original creator exclusive rights to copy, distribute, license and sell their work. Open licenses like Creative Commons allow authors to specify how their work can be shared and reused through options like attribution, share-alike, non-commercial and non-derivative. The document provides examples of remixing and reusing content under different Creative Commons licenses and discusses copyrighted material.
Copyright and Open Licensing
- 1. Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia Copyright and Open Licensing Sanjaya Mishra Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
- 3. Meaning of Terms Author/Creator: is the originator of any written work Copyright: exclusive right given by law to the author/creator of a work 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
- 4. Copyright Exclusive rights given by law to the original creator/author To get credit To copy To distribute To license To sell/make economic transaction To perform
- 5. Further Copyright… Prohibits unauthorized use, distribution, performance, adaptation, sell, etc. Requires permission of the Copyright holder for creating any derivative works Fair use or fair dealing is though permitted Fair use covers Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship.
- 6. Open Licenses Creative Commons CC-BY CC-BY-SA CC-BY-NC CC-BY-NC-SA CC-BY-ND CC-BY-NC-ND Concepts Attribution Share Alike Non-Commercial Non-Derivative
- 7. Why Creative Commons Legal Code: expansive legal languages tested in several cases Commons Code: Simple icon- based approach to explain what you can do want you can’t Digital Code: Enables search engines to search and locate through CC Rights Expression Language
- 8. OER: Remix
- 9. OER: Remix
- 10. Remix Case 1 Consider a publication where the author has identified the following to be included. Decide what license should be needed and how you will go about it. – Original texts plus, images from CC- BY-SA, also texts from CC-BY-NC. – Author has also indicated use of some Copyrighted materials, and have permission to be used by your institution
- 11. Remix Case 2 Consider a publication where the author has identified the following to be included. Decide what license should be needed and how you will go about it. – Original texts plus, images and texts from PD – Author has also indicated use of some texts from CC-BY sources – There are large number of images from online sources, the author has not credited
- 13. THANK YOU