This document discusses copyright and open licensing. It defines key terms like author, creator, copyright and what can be copyrighted. Copyright gives the original creator exclusive rights to copy, distribute, license and sell their work. Open licenses like Creative Commons allow authors to specify how their work can be shared and reused through options like attribution, share-alike, non-commercial and non-derivative. The document provides examples of remixing and reusing content under different Creative Commons licenses and discusses copyrighted material.

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Copyright and Open
Licensing
Sanjaya Mishra
Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

3. Meaning of Terms
 Author/Creator: is the originator of any
written work
 Copyright: exclusive right given by law to the
author/creator of a work
 What can be copyrighted? – Any work which is
not an exact copy of someone else’s work
 Can ideas be copyrighted? No… only
expression of ideas are copyrighted...
 Can copyright be transferred? Yes, an author
can assign copyright to another person, as in
the case of property

4. Copyright
Exclusive rights given by law
to the original creator/author
 To get credit
 To copy
 To distribute
 To license
 To sell/make economic
transaction
 To perform

5. Further Copyright…
 Prohibits unauthorized use,
distribution, performance,
adaptation, sell, etc.
 Requires permission of the
Copyright holder for creating any
derivative works
 Fair use or fair dealing is though
permitted
 Fair use covers Examples of fair
use include commentary, search
engines, criticism, news reporting,
research, teaching, library
archiving and scholarship.

6. Open Licenses
Creative Commons
 CC-BY
 CC-BY-SA
 CC-BY-NC
 CC-BY-NC-SA
 CC-BY-ND
 CC-BY-NC-ND
Concepts
 Attribution
 Share Alike
 Non-Commercial
 Non-Derivative

7. Why Creative Commons
 Legal Code: expansive legal
languages tested in several
cases
 Commons Code: Simple icon-
based approach to explain
what you can do want you
can’t
 Digital Code: Enables search
engines to search and locate
through CC Rights Expression
Language

8. OER: Remix

9. OER: Remix

10. Remix Case 1
 Consider a publication where the
author has identified the
following to be included. Decide
what license should be needed
and how you will go about it.
– Original texts plus, images from CC-
BY-SA, also texts from CC-BY-NC.
– Author has also indicated use of
some Copyrighted materials, and
have permission to be used by your
institution

11. Remix Case 2
 Consider a publication where the author
has identified the following to be
included. Decide what license should be
needed and how you will go about it.
– Original texts plus, images and texts
from PD
– Author has also indicated use of some
texts from CC-BY sources
– There are large number of images
from online sources, the author has
not credited

12. Using CC Licenses

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