Canoe the Open Content Rapids

Canoe the Open Content Rapids Dorothea Salo University of Wisconsin 21 October 2009 Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/3336/142845984/

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.

A word about © • (speaking only about the US) • A limited monopoly granted by federal law • over “original works of authorship” that are “ﬁxed in a tangible medium of expression”* • ‘To promote the progress of science and the useful arts’ • Life of author + 70 years; 95 years corporate *yes, the Internet counts as “tangible” for copyright purposes Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/3336/1487072348/

Copyright permits... • Copying for certain socially-approved uses • Scholarship • Parody/satire • Library preservation (“section 108”) • Classroom use (“the TEACH Act”) • Limited copying for other reasons: “fair use” Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/molajen/2920869292/

What can you do with your copyright? • Sell it, in whole or in part. • Sign it away without payment. • For the most part, this is what faculty do with their journal articles. • License it • for broad or narrow purposes • temporarily or permanently • “exclusive”ly or non- • free or for compensation Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dok1/3745228935/

Fair use • Possibly the least-understood concept in copyright! • An “afﬁrmative defense” in a copyright lawsuit. • Principles and guidelines, not hard-and- fast rules. Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ktylerconk/3719425068/

Four-factor fair use test • Character of the use • Nature of the work • Amount of the work copied • Effect on the market for that work, if everybody did what you’re doing Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/calliope/909753159/

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

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Green Open Access Gold Open Access •“Self-archiving” •Institutional and •Open-access publishing disciplinary repositories •No subscription fees, no •arXiv: arxiv.org cost to access •SSRN: ssrn.com •First journals, now books •MINDS@UW: too! minds.wisconsin.edu Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/n-o-n-o/3243731111/

Open access “mandates” Faculty Libraries! Funders

Finding OA materials • OAIster • http://oaister.org/ • Soon to become part of WorldCat • Directory of Open Access Journals • http://doaj.org/ • Google and Google Scholar

Happy OA Week!

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 the ODEPO directory! • http://opened.creativecommons.org/ODEPO

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 (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-creativecommons-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+Sources Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/mattsheppard/109623841/

Compendium of open images! • http:// teacherlibrarianwiki.pbworks.com/ Copyright+Friendly+Image+Sources • Government sources • CC sources • Public-domain sources

Add to the rapids!

Do not be this! Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/mrpattersonsir/47072047/

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. • UW System: use MINDS@UW! • And encourage your colleagues and your faculty to use it. • Activism! • http://taxpayeraccess.org/ Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/butterﬂysha/135659489/

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! Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/159588834/

Paddle on! Thank you! This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Photo: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/binaryape/3314036576/

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