fair enough sharing resources: ownership and protection issues within and outside institutions
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Sharing resources: ownership and protection issues within and outside
institutions
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James ClayWestern Colleges [email protected]
Project Director – FAIR Enoughwww.westerncc.ac.uk/fair
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Asset Disclosure
Issues and Challenges Ownership and IPR –- who owns what? Protection –- why and how? Sharing –- why and how?
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Copyright - Ownership
Who owns the copyright on a: handout created by a member of staff
during the working day handout created by a member of staff, in
their own time, using a college laptop handout created by a member of staff at
home, in their own time, using their own PC website, used by students, hosted by staff
on their own paid for website
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Copyright & IPR
The underlying objective of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is to protect the creators right to be appropriately acknowledged for his or her work.
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Copyright Act 1988
Copyright is effective upon creation of the work.
One does not have to register their copyright in their work before it is protected.
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Who Owns What? (1)
Who Owns The Copyright Subsisting In The Work?
The Default Owner: The person who created the work, unless the work was completed in the course of employment.
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Who Owns What? (2)
Who Owns The Copyright Subsisting In The Work?
Employment and Ownership: Section 11 (2) of the 1988 Act provides that the copyright of works created during the course of employment will be owned by the employer unless an agreement to the contrary is in place.
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Contractual Obligations
…...the copyright in all records and documents made by you in the course of your employment shall belong to the college...for the avoidance of doubt, the copyright in materials produced by you for the purposes of a course run by the college shall belong to the college
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FE and HE
There are differences between FE and HE institutions especially in regard to contractual obligations.
HE staff often have greater rights over copyright and IPR compared to staff within FE institutions.
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Reality Check
There is a perception amongst staff within colleges (especially part-time staff) that they “own” the resources they create regardless of the law and their contract.
Some staff perceive that they are not paid for their preparation.
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Protecting Copyright
Reasons why an institution may wish to protect its IPR
Support learners Support staff Unauthorised use (commercial) Licence agreements Potential income
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How?
Considerations when protecting IPR: Access Flexibility Security Technical Costs
No system can ever be 100% secure.
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Benefits of Sharing
Sharing of effective practice amongst staff Use of best practice supports learners. Avoids duplication of effort. Specialisation possible. Sharing of resources, systems and
procedures Costs of development can be split between
curriculum areas (or colleges). Saves time
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What is a Resource?
Learning Resources can be: Learning Objects Question Sets Word Files PowerPoint Presentations PDF Files URLs
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Categories of Resources
Commercial (eg ECDL Package)Non-commercial (eg NLN Materials)ConsortiumCollege (Institution)Faculty (Curriculum Area)Individual
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Attitudes to Sharing
Do not want to shareDo not know what sharing isDo not know how to shareShare ineffectivelyWould like to share betterHappy to share and do so...
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Limitations to Sharing
Licence agreementsCultural attitudesFear of judgementsContent classification (meta data)Plagiarism and copyright infringementCompetitive fears
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Effective Sharing
In order to share resources you need to consider
Content classification Portal Delivery Repository Tools Repurposing content Digitisation
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Why Bother?
Makes things better for the learner Student-centered Learning Raises standards Widen access More time for staff Part of Corporate Plan
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Questions
?www.westerncc.ac.uk/fair