Open educational resource community LeMill —

Copyright Issues

Hans PõldojaTallinn University

What is LeMill?

• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources: http://lemill.net

• 2153 teachers and learning content creators from 40 countries, 1125 learning resources, 206 methods and 387 tools

• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE

http://lemill.net

http://lemill.net

http://lemill.net

http://lemill.net

Simple licensing scheme

• All resources created in LeMill are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license

• Media pieces can be also under:

- Creative Commons Attribution license

- GNU Free Documentation License

- Public Domain

• References to external content under any license

Reusing open content

2 500 000media files

6 900 000BY

4 900 000BY-SAphotos

5000content modules

Embedding copyrighted content

Why BY-SA?

• Open is not enough, educational resources should be free to use in any context

• Reasons not to use Noncommercial restriction: http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC

• ShareAlike resriction protects authors

Problems

• Other Estonian initiatives do not guide people to use BY-SA license

• Teachers remix CC licenses that can not be remixed

• Teachers upload copyrighted content

Approximate distribution of copyleft licenses for content

26%

26%

48%

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/355

Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlikeAttribution–ShareAlikeGNU Free Documentation License

Future plans

• Better tools for copyright management

• Upgrading to BY-SA 3.0

• Double licensing: BY-SA + GNU FDL

• Meet the requirements for Free Cultural Works

Requirements for Free Cultural Works

• Availability of source data

• Use of a free format

• No technical restrictions

• No other restrictions or limitations

http://freedomdefined.org/Definition

Thank you!

• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee

• Skype: hanspoldoja

• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja/