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Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

21 October 2009

Open Content Rapids

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You’ve heard this too, right?

•“My students are doing digital storytelling. I tell them to go to Google Images and use what they find there. How should I tell them to credit the creator?”

ARGH.

The public domain

Google Books!

•All the legal wrangling is about orphan works.

•Public-domain books will be freely available through Google and Hathi.

•Enjoy!

Building the digital public domain

•Musopen: http://www.musopen.com/

•Flickr Commons: http://flickr.com/commons

•Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Government documents

Three cheers for the feds!

•Work produced by federal employees in the course of their jobs is in the public domain.

• Unless it’s confidential or something, of course.

•This means more than text!

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opalsson/3089698096/

The Cod of Ethics...

from the US Fish and Wildlife Service:http://www.fws.gov/digitalmedia/

Logo design by Steve Lawson.

http://nasaimages.org/

Open Access

Finding OA materials

•OAIster• Now part of WorldCat• OA-specific search engine coming early 2010

•Directory of Open Access Journals• http://doaj.org/

•Google and Google Scholar

Open Educational Resources

Open courses

•MIT Open CourseWare• http://ocw.mit.edu/• Nearly 2000 courses!

•Open Learn from the Open University• http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php

•Stanford Engineering Everywhere• http://see.stanford.edu/

•Try the OCW Finder!• http://ocwfinder.com/

Open learning materials•OER Commons

• http://www.oercommons.org/• K-12 and college-level

•MERLOT• College-level• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm• Pointers to external resources

•Try a directory!• http://opened.creativecommons.org/ODEPO• http://academicearth.org/

Creative Commons

Creative Commons•What if you want people to reuse your

stuff?• You could grant it to the public domain...• ... but then anybody can do anything with it.

•Creative Commons is a middle ground.• Licensing copyrighted works to all comers for reuse!• Under certain conditions...

•http://creativecommons.org/

CC license provisions

•BY: Must attribute to creator.• On all CC licenses except CC0/PDD (public domain dedication)

•ND: No derivative works.•NC: Non-commercial use only.

•SA: Share-alike• Release your new work under the same license.

•These can be combined!

Where to find CC-licensed works

•Images: Flickr• Has its own CC search, or use• Flickr Storm: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/• GREAT source of legally-usable images for your projects and your

students’ projects!

•Music: ccMixter• http://ccmixter.org/• Also see http://incompetech.com/ (yes, really)• Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/en/

Or look through...•“30+ Places to Find Creative Commons

Media”• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/30/30-creative-

commons-sources/

•“25+ Sources for Creative Commons Content”

• http://mashable.com/2007/10/27/creative-commons/

•“Copyright Friendly Image Sources”• http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbworks.com/Copyright+Friendly

+Image+SourcesPhoto: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattsheppard/109623841/

Add to the rapids!

Do not be this!

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Digitization

•Do not engage in copyfraud!• If it’s public domain, digitization does not re-copyright it.

•Make reuse rights or licenses clear.•Use Creative Commons licenses

(including CC0) whenever possible!•Join Flickr Commons

•Think about digitization when you accept unpublished materials.

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/schex/193912573/

Publication•Open access starts at home!

• We look bad when we tout open access to faculty and then don’t practice it ourselves.

•Read your next publication agreement. Amend it if necessary.

•Use MINDS@UW!• And encourage your colleagues and your faculty to use it.

•Activism!• http://taxpayeraccess.org/• OSTP on OA to federally-funded works.

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Outreach

•Tell people about Creative Commons.• Great for classroom needs!• Instead of being copyright cop, be Creative Commons advocate!

•Credit visibly so that you can field questions.

•Never ask permission when open content will do!

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Paddle on!

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