This document summarizes a presentation on copyright and open educational resources. It discusses identifying materials with Creative Commons licenses and legitimate open educational resources. It covers using copyrighted materials, fair use, and requesting permissions. The presentation explains releasing open access materials and applying Creative Commons licenses. Library support contacts are provided to assist with questions.

1. Brett D. Currier, MSLS, JD
Director of Scholarly Communications
brett.currier@uta.edu
@brettdcurrier

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4. KINDS OF QUESTIONS RECEIVED
We videotaped a guest lecturer who showed a youtube video in class. Can I
put that recording in blackboard?
Can I use a youtube video in my class?
I want to use this theory in my dissertation. How do I receive permission to
include it?
I’m creating a class that UT Arlington isn’t administering. What can I use?
My students are citing a Creative Commons Licensed image. How do we do
that?
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6. LIBRARY SUPPORT
Brett D. Currier, Director of Scholarly Communications
Lydia Pyburn, Off-Campus Service Librarian
Heather Scalf, Director of Assessment & Nursing Liaison
Kaeli Vandertulip, Health Sciences Librarian
Kelly Visnak, Associate University Librarian of Scholarly Communications
Peace Ossom Williamson, Health Sciences Librarian
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8. AGENDA
• Introduction to Copyright
• Learning how to identify Creative Commons Licensed materials for your
preferred objectives
• Break
• Learn how to identify Legitimate Open Educational Materials
• Learn how to create and release Open Access Resources
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10. To promote the
Progress of Science
and useful Arts, by
securing for limited
Times to Authors and
Inventors the
exclusive Right to
their respective
Writings and
Discoveries.
Constitution Art. I, § 8,
Cl. 8
• Balance between
the exclusive
rights of authors
and
• The Public Interest
in the Free Flow of
information
• For a Limited Time
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INTRODUCTION

11. Created at the moment it
the work is fixed in a
tangible medium of
expression.
Requires a minimal amount
of creativity
Literary works;
Musical works, including
any accompanying
words;
Dramatic works, including
any accompanying
music;
Pantomimes and
choreographic works;
Pictorial, graphic, and
sculptural works;
Motion pictures and other
audiovisual works;
Sound recordings; and
Architectural works.
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STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS

12. RIGHTS OF THE AUTHOR
• Make copies
• Distribute the work
• Publicly perform or display the work
• Prepare derivative works
• License any of the above to third parties
• Transfer the copyright to a third party
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13. USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS
Linking to Content
Embedding Content in Blackboard
Archival Preservation
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14. FAIR USE
1. Purpose and Character of the Use
2. Nature of the Copyrighted Work
3. Amount and Substantiality of the work
4. The Effect of the Use upon the Marketplace
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15. GENERAL GUIDELINES
1 Chapter from a book
1 Article from a journal
When placed in Blackboard for students in your course
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17. PUBLISHED BEFORE JAN. 1, 1923
Portal to Texas History
UT Arlington Libraries Digital Gallery
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Project Gutenberg
Archive.org
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18. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
National Institute of Health
National Library of Medicine
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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20. TWO CATEGORIES
• Permissions that are given in advance
• Permissions that must be requested
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21. PERMISSIONS THAT ARE GIVEN IN ADVANCE
• Creative Commons Licenses
• Anti-copyright Notices
• Woody Guthrie
• Other ways
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22. PERMISSIONS THAT MUST BE REQUESTED
• Exclusive Licenses: Must be in writing
• Non-exclusive Licenses: Can be oral
• Better to be documented!
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23. REQUESTING PERMISSIONS
• Copyright Clearance Center
• Other Clearing agencies
• Permissions Letters
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24. COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER
Journal of Endocrinology
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25. PERMISSIONS LETTERS
• UT Arlington Example Permission Letter Request
• Dr. Holliday in Architecture
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26. CITING WHEN RECEIVING PERMISSION
Explanation from Purdue
“If you are reproducing a graphic, chart, or table, from some other source,
you must provide a special note at the bottom of the item that includes
copyright information. You should also submit written permission along
with your work. Begin the citation with “Note.”
Note. From “Title of the article,” by W. Jones and R. Smith, 2007, Journal
Title, 21, p. 122. Copyright 2007 by Copyright Holder. Reprinted with
permission.”
APA encourages submitting copies of the permissions letters with the work
From Purdue’s Online Writing Lab Available at
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/04/
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27. QUESTIONS?
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29. STATE OF THE COMMONS
Creative Commons Licensed Materials
• Almost a total of 1 billion licensed materials
• Over 9 million websites that utilize a Creative Commons material,
including UTA Arlington Library
• Almost 60% of content are licensed for Commercial Reuse
• Over 75% of content are licensed for adaptions
• State of the Commons
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30. FIVE CATEGORIES
Term Definition
CC0 No restrictions
BY Attribution
SA Share Alike
NC Non-Commercial
ND No derivatives
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31. SEVEN LICENSES
CC License
CC0
CC-BY
CC-BY-SA
CC-BY-ND
CC-BY-NC
CC-BY-NC-SA
CC-BY-NC-ND
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32. LOCATING CREATIVE COMMONS
LICENSED MATERIALS
Creative Commons Search
Advanced Google Search
3D Printing Repository
• Pinshape
• Thingiverse
• NIH 3D Print Exchange
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33. CITING CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSED
MATERIAL
Creative Commons Best Practices for Attribution
OnCall Team. (2006). Nursing students. Flickr.com. Retrieved
from https://flic.kr/p/8J8tSS. Copyright 2006 by OnCall
Team (https://flic.kr/ps/QmPsu). Reprinted courtesy of the Copyright Holder
under a Creative Commons License CC BY-SA
2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
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34. ACTIVITY
Search
Creative Commons Search
Advanced Google Search
3D Printing Repository
• Pinshape
• Thingiverse
• NIH 3D Print Exchange
Identify License
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37. DEFINING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an intellectual property
license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open
educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
William and Hewlett Foundation
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38. KINDS OF OERS
• Open Textbooks
• Open Textbook Library
• Open Journal Articles
• Institutional Repositories
• Virginia Henderson Global Nursing E-Repository
• Powerpoints
• Slideshare
• Photographs
• Creative Commons search
• Google Search
• Achive.org
• Videos
• Clip Art
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39. IDENTIFYING LEGITIMATE RESOURCES
• Peer Reviewed
• Beall’s List Criteria
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of
Conduct
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct for Journal
Publishers
• International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
(STM) Code of Conduct
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• Ask a colleague
• Ask a librarian
• Instinct
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40. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
DOAJ Nursing
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43. WHY?
• Broad dissemination of Research
• More readers
• More citations
• Social Justice
• Grant Compliance
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44. DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT?
University of Texas System Policy
UT System Intellectual Property Policy in Plain English
Contracts
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45. CONTRACT TERMS: FOUR MAIN MODELS
Model Type Journal Examples
Work Made for Hire Oxford University Press; ASME
Copyright Transfer Elsevier Journals (over 2000 titles)
Exclusive License Elsevier Open Access license
Non-Exclusive License* PLOS; Buzzfeed
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*Only Contract term that does not require permission from the publisher

46. Before . . .
Determine what
rights you want
to keep
Negotiate the
Contract
After . . .
Permission from
the Publisher
Rights reversion
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BEFORE AND AFTER

47. RELEASING OPEN MATERIAL
• What kind of material is it?
• Where do you want to release it?
• Are you interested in archival preservation?
• Subject specific? Or institutional?
• Research Commons
• Virginia Henderson Global Nursing E-Repository
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48. APPLYING A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
Selecting the license
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49. OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS
• Peer Reviewed
• Beall’s List Criteria
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of
Conduct
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct for Journal
Publishers
• International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
(STM) Code of Conduct
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• Ask a colleague
• Ask a librarian
• Instinct
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50. UT ARLINGTON REPOSITORY
• Library
• Contact Faedra Wills wills@uta.edu
• Submission Walk Through
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Brett D. Currier
817-272-5127
brett.currier@uta.edu
@bdcurrier