OERs, copyright and licenses Embedding OER "Team Six" workshop, Wednesday 22 February 2012

Hello Julian Beckton Paul Stainthorp Joss Winn

This is not legal advice! You are responsible for your own copying.

Copyright law Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 "Substantial" (not defined) "Fair dealing" defences o Personal study and noncommercial research o Reporting of current events o Criticism or review Attribution/citation almost always necessary No general "education" or "teaching" exceptions

Copyright law (2) Exceptions for the purposes of examination Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002 Exceptions for instruction in film-making Terms and conditions apply! Copyright expires (usually 70 years after the death of the author) Copyright can be waived, or permission to re- use given or licenced You might own the copyright!

Copyright (3) Copyright myths: "It's OK if it's in a closed environment like Blackboard." "If people put things (e.g. images) on the WWW, they can't mind me using them." "No-one's going to sue the University over it." Further useful advice is available at: (advice from JISC Legal) (AHDS advice ‒ old) (Copyright for VIP Act)

Commercial licences Can be used to copy/digitise materials for an internal audience (i.e. students), in return for £: CLA Comprehensive licence allows digitisation from published works – lots of terms & conditions CLA Comprehensive licence o Copying must be done by the Library CLA licence also allows you to make paper-to-paper photocopies for use in class NLA licence allows limited copying from certain newspapers NLA licence ERA+ licence allows digital streaming of recorded terrestrial TV & radio programmes ERA+ licence Publishers' primary licences (complicated!)

CC CC introduction About the licenses Choose a license

If you can't copy, link! Good practice in linking: 1. Acknowledge the source / citation 2. Pay heed to the terms & conditions of the source website (e.g. YouTube)YouTube 3. Set links to open in a new window 4. (Do not open within frames) 5. Link to the pages, not elements (e.g. images) 6. Include a disclaimer, e.g.: "The content of this external website is the intellectual property of someone other than the University of Lincoln. You should not copy material without the permission of the copyright owner." 7. Consider authentication!

Exercise What can you do with these resources?

Who owns © of your work? In law, the University! University revests the © of scholarly work in the author (i.e. you) When you publish, you probably transfer © to publisher and no longer have a right to re- usehttp://lncn.eu/dwyhttp://lncn.eu/dwy Moral rights associated with "performance"performance Student as Producer and IPR:

What can we do for you? Discuss!