Workshop Barcelona: Reports on Legal Issues

Reports on Legal Issues

Ignasi LabastidaUniversitat de Barcelona

Workshop on Open Content licensing in EuropeBarcelona, 20th September 2012

OpenCourseWare in the European HE context

opencourseware.eu with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

ReportsAnalyses of current practices in Europe

Overview of European copyright legislation and free licenses

Workshop on Open Content licensing in Europe - Barcelona, 20th September 2012

Overview of European copyright legislation and free licenses

Educational exceptions and limitations in Europe 2001/29/EC DirectiveDesharmonization

CC afiliate network in EuropeCC licenses in Europe


Analyses of Current Practices in EuropeOCWC European Members

Open Content Licensing in OCW sites

Open Content Licensing and contents

A review, not a set of recommendations


Analyses of Current Practices in Europe64 OCWC European MembersAustria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Some of them do not offer coursesSome links are broken or not working yet


Analyses of Current Practices in EuropeOpen Content Licensing on OCW Sites: Copyright

Lack of legal notice

Authors' Copyright vs Institutional Copyright


Analyses of Current Practices in Europe


Analyses of Current Practices in EuropeOpen Content Licensing on OCW Sites: Licenses

BY-NC-SA CC LicenseBY-NC-ND CC LicenseUnported vs Ported LicenseVersion of the licenseTranslation of Human Readable Deed


Analyses of Current Practices in EuropeOpen Content Licensing on OCW Sites: License marking <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.


http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Analyses of Current Practices in EuropeOpen Content Licensing on OCW Sites: License marking

Lack of license in the home site

Different License notices

Link to a different license


Analyses of Current Practices in EuropeOpen Content Licensing on OCW Contents

Lack of license marking

Incoherence of licenses or copyright notices

License dependence of platform access


Analyses of Current Practices in EuropeConclusions

Copyright belongs to authors or institutionOCW sites use CC Licenses, mainly CC BY-NC-SALicense marking must be improved and verifiedNeed to maintain coherence on licensesContents are not marked in general
