SCOREThe Support Centre for Open Resources in EducationCopyright Workshop

25 January 2011

Bernadette Attwell

Copyright• No formal registration system• No quality threshold• Owned by the author in first instance• Represents control over ‘restricted acts’

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

What is Protected by Copyright?• Films• Sound Recordings• Broadcasts• Typographical Arrangements• Performances• Databases

Duration• Original Literary, Dramatic, Musical & Artistic Works

– Life Of The Author/Owner Plus 70 YEARS• Broadcasts 50 YEARS• Sound Recordings 50 YEARS• Film - Life Of 4 Authors Plus 70 YEARS• Typographical Arrangements 25 YEARS• Performances 50 YEARS• Designs (registered) 25 YEARS• Databases 15 YEARS

Film - Authors• Director• Author of the Screenplay• Author of the Dialogue• Composer of any Original Soundtrack

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

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

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

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

Moral Rights• Paternity Right - the right to be named as author

• Integrity Right - the right to object to derogatory treatment

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 ITNo

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

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

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

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

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

• SCORE

Copyright & Open Content

• Copyright retained • Broad licensing of tools and content• Standardised licensing• Community based

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

Options for creative commons• Attribution• Versioning or not?• Commercial use or not?• “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved