User generated content —
copyright issues, tools and
technologies
Hans Põldoja
Tallinn University
hans@tlu.ee

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-
Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons,
171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/compactive07

Copyright issues

Copyright laws
• Educational use in motivated amount
is permitted (fair use)
• You need author’s agreement to
distribute, adapt or translate the
resource.

Creative Commons licenses

http://creativecommons.org/

http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons licenses
• Attribution
• Attribution–ShareAlike
• Attribution–Noncommercial
• Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlike
• Attribution–Noncommercial– No Derivative Works
• Attribution–No Derivative Works

http://creativecommons.org/

Freedoms
• Sharing — freedom to copy, distribute
and transmit the work
• Remixing — freedom to adapt the
work

Conditions
• Attribution
• ShareAlike
• Noncommercial
• No Derivative Works

Attribution
You must attribute the work in the
manner specified by the author or
licensor (but not in any way that
suggests that they endorse you or
your use of the work).

Share Alike
If you alter, transform, or build upon
this work, you may distribute the
resulting work only under the same or
similar license to this one.

Noncommercial
You may not use this work for
commercial purposes.

No Derivative Works
You may not alter, transform, or build
upon this work.

Other open licences
• GNU Free Documentation License
(used in Wikipedia)
• Public Domain (works that are not
under copyright)

How to recognize the license?

Where to find open content?

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

http://www.archive.org/

http://www.ccmixter.org/

Where to find open educational
resources?

http://ocw.mit.edu

http://en.wikibooks.org/

http://en.wikiversity.org/

http://cnx.org/

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://lemill.net

Limitations of Creative
Commons licenses

Approximate Distribution of Copyleft
Licenses for Content
26%
Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlike
48% Attribution–ShareAlike
GNU Free Documentation License
26%
(Wiley, 2007)

You can’t remix them
GNU Creative Commons Creative Commons
Free Documentation Attribution–ShareAlike Attribution–Noncommercial–
License license ShareAlike license
Wikipedia LeMill MIT OCW
Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons USU OCW (partly)
(partly) (partly)
USU OCW (partly)

Solutions
• Remix and publish your work inside
one Creative Commons license
• Double licensing: make your work
available under two licenses (Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and
GNU Free Documentation License)

Folksonomy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

http://del.icio.us/tag/

http://www.youtube.com/tags

Choosing a tag for your event
• calibrate07portoroz
• compactive07
• etwinest07
• etwinning07polva
• isummit07
• itk07

RSS

RSS readers
• Feedreader: http://
www.feedreader.com
• NetNewsWire Lite: http://
ranchero.com/netnewswire/
• Liferea: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

NetNewsWire Lite

FeedReader

http://www.netvibes.com/

References
• Wiley, D. (2007). Open Education License Draft. http://opencontent.org/blog/
archives/355

Photos
• Slide 3: Ludwig Gatzke, http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

Thank You!
hans@tlu.ee
skype: hanspoldoja
http://www.hanspoldoja.net