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SCORE The Support Centre for Open Resources in Education Copyright Workshop 6 December 2011 Bernadette Attwell
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Copyright No formal registration system No quality threshold Owned by the author in first instance Represents control over ‘restricted acts’
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What is Protected by Copyright? Original Literary Works –Inc. Prose, Poetry, Tables, Compilations, Songs, Computer Programmes, Databases Original Musical Works –Musical Notation Original Dramatic Works –Plays, Scripts, Screen Plays, Mime, Choreography Original Artistic Works –Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Jewellery, Graphics, Architectural Designs, Buildings, Maps, Charts, Carvings, Photographs
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What is Protected by Copyright? Films Sound Recordings Broadcasts Typographical Arrangements Performances Databases
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Duration Original Literary, Dramatic, Musical & Artistic Works –Life Of The Author/Owner Plus70 YEARS Broadcasts50 YEARS Sound Recordings50 YEARS Film - Life Of 4 Authors Plus70 YEARS Typographical Arrangements25 YEARS Performances50 YEARS Designs (registered)25 YEARS Databases15 YEARS
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Film - Authors Director Author of the Screenplay Author of the Dialogue Composer of any Original Soundtrack
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Restricted Acts Copying Issuing Copies To The Public Performing, Showing Or Playing To The Public Broadcasting Adapting Storing In Any Electronic Medium Altering/Removing Rights Management data Overriding Security Systems
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Restricted Acts Rental And Lending Importing Infringing Copies Dealing In Infringing Copies Providing Means For Making Infringing Copies Provision Of Premises Or Apparatus For Infringing Performances Authorising Infringement
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Permitted Acts Insubstantial Use Non-Commercial Research Or Private Study Fair Dealing For The Purposes Of Criticism Or Review Fair Dealing For The Purposes Of Reporting Current Events Bona Fide Examinations Instruction in film making and sound recording
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Permitted Acts Licensed Recording Of Broadcasts By Educational Establishments Photocopying Under CLA Licence Video Recording At Home For 'Time-Shifting' Purposes Decompilation -With Caution Redrawing -With Caution
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Moral Rights Paternity Right - the right to be named as author Integrity Right - the right to object to derogatory treatment
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Can I Use It? Is it a work? Is it protected? Do I have a defence to allow free use? Am I performing a Restricted act? CLEAR IT USE IT No Yes
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Why choose Creative Commons? Becoming a standard with open content communities Displays a mark of commitment Standardised terms – easily understood Non-commercial/educational/commercial licence to suit your business model Based on collaboration and interchange Moral rights are preserved
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Creative Commons Attribution of authorship Variation/no variation of content Commercial/non commercial use Any further use licensed on same terms Internationally recognised symbols www.creativecommons.org www.creativecommons.org
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IP Licensing issues Ownership of content created in-house Moral rights Licensing third party content Business models what is ‘non-commercial’? Non-commercial/commercial/competitive Collaboration Creation and publication of content by users
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What is open content? Copyright or public domain Open source = software Open content = text and multimedia Opencourseware (MIT and others) Open educational resources The OU OpenLearn http://oci.open.ac.uk http://oci.open.ac.uk SCORE
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Copyright & Open Content Copyright retained Broad licensing of tools and content Standardised licensing Community based
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Fundamentals of CC Based on Copyright (does not protect ideas/facts) Applies to all works (not suitable for software) Fair Dealing/fair use preserved Non-exclusive Non-revocable Think about what you are licensing
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Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ A range of standard licensing templates Easily identifiable symbols Licences expressed in legal, lay and computer languages Does not challenge copyright. Challenges business models
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Options for creative commons Attribution Versioning or not? Commercial use or not? “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved
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