Creative Commons Licensing at Open Courseware

Ignasi Labastida i JuanOffice for Knowledge Dissemination

Universitat de Barcelona

Carolina Botero CabreraFundaciòn Karisma

Implementation Resources

Learning ContentTools

Text on OER slides are licensed GNU FDL v1.2

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html

Michael Reschke cba

Implementation Resources

Learning ContentTools

Michael Reschke cba

Full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, journals

Full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, journals

Full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, journals

Software to support the creation, delivery, use and improvement of open learning content including searching and organization of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and on-line learning communities.

Copyright licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.

OCW

But not just any license

All CC licenses

Allow: Reproduction

Distribution Public Display / Performance

...without commercial purposes.

Require: Attribution

License notice

Attribution -ShareAlike

Attribution

Attribution -NoDerivWorks

Attribution -NonCommercial

Attribution -NonCommercial-NoDerivWorks

Attribution –NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Current CC licenses

The CC-MIT-OCW license

Allowed: Reproduction

Distribution Public Display / Performance

Derivative Works ...without commercial purposes

Required: Attribution for author and MIT

License noticeShare alike (deriv work with same license)

Attribution –NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 USA

Current OCW MIT license

Non Commercial

Determination of commercial vs. non-commercial purpose is based on the use, not the user. Materials may be used by individuals, institutions, governments, corporations, or other business whether for-profit or non-profit so long as the use itself is not a commercialization of the materials or a use that is directly intended to generate sales or profit.

Incidental charges to recover reasonable reproduction costs may be permitted.

OCW Consortium

The MIT OCW initiative growsMany universities follow the OCWC, but...

do they understand the meaning of it?

Fashion or Conviction?

Attribution -NonCommercial-NoDerivWorks

©All rights reserved

Current OCW conditions (non MIT)

More problems...

Restricted access to materials

Same resource, but different license at different platform (OCW/IR)

Attribution –NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Should we establish a basis...

...and let open it more?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmarty/128010935/Autor Justin Marty (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmarty/) CC-BY

Open Educational Resources(OER)

Open for

UseRemixAdaptShare

Without legal/technical/economic restrictions

Researchers call it

OPEN ACCESS

Should we copy the OA model?

Why CC-BY?

Allows unrestricted adaptations, translations,...

Wide use without restrictions on derivative works

Compatible with any free license (interoperability)

Requires attribution (non endorsment) and respect for moral rights where exist

Conclusions

A guide on the use of CC licenses at OCWC is needed.

The BY-NC-SA CC license should be use as a minimum forbiding more restrictive schemes

The debate for openness should be opened.

Do we have time?

Lets work together to understand the compatibility issue when building learning material...

http://vimeo.com/9925535

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