creative commons for tertiary education

Creative Commons for Wintec

4 Feb 2014

Questions to mull over:

1. What kinds of copyright works are produced at Wintec?

2. What kinds of copyright works are used at Wintec?

More free More restrictive

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1. Licences

2. Advocacy Projects

Our goal:“Universal access to research and

education, full participation in culture.”

First point:It’s becoming much easier to

access and reuse works online.

Second point: It hasn't always been easy to build

on other works.

Family watching television, c. 1958. National Archives and Records Administration. 1944 – 2006. No known copyright.

Third point:The technical barriers to access

and reuse are dropping

Screenshot from ‘Lego Life Lessons - Safety Tips for Walking to School’ by the Manning Brothers. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence.

Fourth point:Obvious potential to share items

for reuse

Getty MuseumClosed:121 Purchases p/m Open: 60,000 downloads p/m

Claude-Joseph Vernet (French, 1714 - 1789)A Calm at a Mediterranean Port, 1770, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Fifth point:Taxpayers fund a great deal of

New Zealand copyright works (many of which quickly fall from circulation).

Sixth point:The legal barriers to dissemination

& reuse remain.

“Stop” by Brainware 3000. CC-BY. Via Flickr.

Copyright is:

Bundle of rightsAutomatic

Copy, distribute, perform, adapt*applies online*

Lasts for 50 years after death

Copyright the opportunities and problems of print culture

“Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster,” by Daniel Maclise, 1851.

Heald, Paul J., How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear (and How Secondary Liability Rules Help Resurrect Old Songs) (July 5, 2013). Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-07; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-54. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2290181 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2290181

What to do?

“Grayson, Westley, Stanislaus County, Western San Joaquin Valley, California. Seventh and eighth grade class in Westley school after lesson in Geography” 1940, US National Archives 83-G-41445, via Flickr. No known copyright.

Licence = Permission

Creators retain copyright

Standardised

Internationally recognised & used

(and free!)

Public DomainFew Restrictions


All Rights ReservedFew Freedoms


All Rights ReservedFew Freedoms

Some Rights ReservedRange of Licence Options

Four Licence Elements

Attribution

Non Commercial

No Derivatives

Share Alike

Six Licences

More free More restrictive

Go to creativecommons.org/choose

CC Kiwi by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand

Licence.

The Remix Kiwi by CCANZ is based on a work by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand [LINK], which is made available under a

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.

Layers

Licence symboll

Human readable

Lawyer readable

More than 700 million works.

“2500 Creative Commons Licences” by qthomasbower, via Flickr. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 licence.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cIWmV5nCF8o97Nrb8wYZWfQ97FG-4ylNuXezh2nlBBM/edit

1. What kinds of copyright works are produced at Wintec?

2. What kinds of copyright works are used at Wintec?

Questions to mull over:

1. How can Wintec open copyright works it produces?

1. How can Wintec open copyright works it produces?

2. What's being done to open up copyright works that Wintec uses?

Free, open-licensed research outputs – to be used by everyone in the

world, because...

1.Most publicly funded research cannot be

accessed by the public

This restricts the dissemination of knowledge to the people who need it

most.

“I am an independent researcher from a third

world country not affiliated to any university or a

company. Thus I neither have access to paid journals

nor I can afford them”– independent research,

Nepal.Source: MIT Library

“I don’t have access to many articles due to … sanctions.

… I really appreciate this policy of MIT that helped me

a lot.” – Researcher, Middle East

Source: MIT Library

“I am an independent researcher, with no current academic affiliation. I am

writing a book which involves researching

topological quantum neural computing.... Thank you for

making science freely available to all!” – Scientific

journalist, USSource: MIT Library

2. Libraries are struggling. From 1986-2007,

subscription charges increased by 340%, four

times the rate of inflation

“We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive.”

3. Higher education is struggling to make the case

for more public funding

4. Most publicly funded research cannot be reused

by the public

What is Copyright?All Rights Reserved copyright

restricts many common & essential uses of research

What is Copyright?

Distribution to students, colleagues, journalists, businesses.

Reuse by other researchers, bloggers, journalists, publishers.

Republication to new audiences

Translation to other languages

Also, without open licensing, your (publicly funded) work may not enter the

commons for over 100 years (...)

…which makes life very hard for libraries and archives who want to give

your work a second life.

Exhibit A:

Solution: Open Access

Open Access policies from public funding bodies in all

major English-speaking countries, EU & many Latin American & Asia countries

OK, but what does ‘open’ even mean?

1. Access:

2. Technical:

3. Copyright:

1. Access: Green and Gold

2. Technical: Open Formats

3. Copyright: Open Licensing

Access

Green: Deposit post-print, peer-reviewed article in an institutional or disciplinary repository

Access

Green: Deposit post-print, peer-reviewed article in an institutional or disciplinary repository

Gold: Article is made freely available by publisher (sometimes after APC charge)

2. Technical

Use of open formats, to allow others to share, adapt and reuse research (including data)

3. Copyright

Use of open licensing, to allow others to share, adapt and reuse research (including data)

[We haven't mentioned open data, open science, open peer review]

Free, open-licensed teaching resources – to be

used by everyone in the world, because...

1. Textbooks, often publicly funded, are too expensive

Between 2002 and 2013, the price of college textbooks rose 82% — nearly three times the rate of inflation

Solution: Open Textbooks

2. Too many teachers reinvent the wheel.

This is an enormous waste of time and money, across

the entire New Zealand education system.

Solution: Online Sharing Portals

3. We can't build enough universities to meet global

demand

Source: Brandenburg, U., Carr, D., Donauer, S., Berthold, C. (2008) Analysing the Future Market – Target Countries for German HEIs, Working paper No. 107, CHE Centre for Higher Education Development, Gütersloh, Germany, p. 13.

“Accommodating the additional 98 million students would require more than four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years.”

Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić of UNESCO

Solution: Open Higher Education.

What can you do?

creativecommons.org.nz@cc_Aotearoa

[email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand License.

QUESTIONS?