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This webcast will highlight and clarify legal issues relevant to the creation and dissemination of Open Educational Resources. We will provide a combination of presentations and question and answer sessions which will consist of practical and helpful guidance for institutions involved in OER work. Presenters include Naomi Korn, one of JISC's IP consultants, who will be focussing on Creative Commons licences and how they apply to OER projects.
Although the webcast is primarily focused on OER pilot projects that are part of the open educational resources programme, supported by JISC and The Higher Education Academy, the content will also be of interest more widely to programme managers, lecturers, tutors and support staff interested in copyright and OER production and distribution.
UK gets its own Creative Commons - ZDNet.co.uk
A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK's legal landscape will be formally launched in London on Wednesday evening.
Creative Commons was first developed by US academic Lawrence Lessig as a more flexible alternative to the traditional copyright laws. It allows content creators to grant some rights to the public while keeping others — for example, allowing anyone to republish their material as long as it is attributed.
The Myth Of Original Creators | Techdirt
We recently wrote about how many different sources Shakespeare used in writing King Lear, some of which he apparently copied verbatim. However, it seems quite likely that what Shakespeare did with those words created something wholly unique and valuable (at least, it's withstood the tests of time). Yet, this idea that taking the works of others and doing something with them to make them new and wonderful seems to be an anathema to the "true believers" in copyright, who insist that creativity is about being wholly original, and almost never about building on the works of those who came before. Yet, there's almost no evidence to support this. Nearly any creative work can be shown to be built upon the works of those who came before (hell, even our own copyright law is copied from others').
Should linking be illegal? | Dan Kennedy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Should linking be illegal?
In a misguided attempt to aid newspapers, one of America's most influential judges is suggesting a new copyright law
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Those who wish to keep the internet free and open had best dust off their legal arguments. One of America's most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission. The idea, he said in a blog post last week, is to prevent aggregators and bloggers from linking to newspaper websites without paying:
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circums
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