This document discusses open content in school projects. It begins with an overview of copyright and Creative Commons licenses. It then provides examples of open content that could be used in school projects, such as texts, photos, presentations, brochures, posters, music, and videos. Important technologies for sharing open content, such as tagging, embedding, and open educational resources are also covered. The document concludes with references to additional resources about Creative Commons licenses and open educational practices.

1. Creating and sharing open
content in school projects
Hans Põldoja
Tallinn University

2. cba
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3. Outline
• Copyright
• Creative Commons licenses
• Creating and sharing open content
• Open educational resources and practices

4. Copyright

5. What is protected by
copyright?
• 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
• Architectural works
• Computer software

6. Duration of copyright
• Copyright protection starts from the time the
work is created in a fixed form
• Copyright protection lasts authors’ lifetime and 70
years after death

7. Economic rights
• Reproduction
• Distribution
• Rental
• Broadcasting
• Public performance
• ...

8. Moral rights
• Attribution
• Anonymous or pseudonymous
publishing
• Integrity of the work
• Withdrawal
• ...

9. Limitations
EU Copyright Directive lists a number of limitations that
can be applied by the member states, including:
• Reproductions by public libraries, educational
institutions or archives for non-commercial use
• Use for illustration for teaching or scientific research,
to the extent justified by the non-commercial
purpose
• Communication of works to the public within the
premises of public libraries, educational institutions,
museums or archives

10. Problems in the educational
context
• What extent of educational reuse is justified by
the non-commercial purpose?
• Translation and modification of the work requires
agreement from the author

11. Creative Commons
licences

12. http://creativecommons.org

15. Creative Commons licenses
• Attribution (CC BY)
• Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA)
• Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)
• Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC)
• Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

16. License conditions
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the
b manner specified by the author or licensor
Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon
a 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
n commercial purposes
No Derivative Works — You may not alter,
d transform, or build upon this work

17. Rights
Share — to copy, distribute and transmit
s the work
r Remix — to adapt the work

18. Three “Layers” of licenses
(Creative Commons, 2012)

21. How to recognize CC
licensed works?

22. Marking licenses
• If no license information is included with the
work, then users must assume that all rights are
reserved
• Title of the license, icon and link are added to
openly licensed content

23. Creative Commons icons

24. Which licence to
choose?

25. Choosing a license
• Author is free to choose a license for her own work
• License choice depends on used content and sharing
platform
• Follow the ShareAlike restriction

26. Recommended licenses
• Photos and other small contributions:
Creative Commons Attribution
• Works that have required more resources or time:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike

27. Creating and sharing
open content

28. What kind of open content we
could have in school projects?

29. Open content in school
projects
• Texts
• Photos and images
• Brochures and posters
• Websites and presentations
• Music
• Videos
• ...

30. Photos

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

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

33. http://commons.wikimedia.org

34. Demo
http://commons.wikimedia.org

35. Presentations

36. http://www.slideshare.net

37. Demo
http://www.slideshare.net

38. Brochures and posters

39. http://www.scribd.com

40. Music

41. http://soundcloud.com/creativecommons

42. http://www.jamendo.com

43. Demo
http://www.jamendo.com

44. Important technologies

45. Tagging

46. Embedding from

47. Embedding to

48. Open educational
resources and practices

49. http://ocw.mit.edu

50. http://lreforschools.eun.org

51. http://www.oercommons.org

52. http://lemill.net

53. http://mooc.ca

54. http://p2pu.org

55. References
• Creative Commons (2012). About The Licenses. http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/

56. Photos
• Hans Põldoja, http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanspoldoja/7180372735/
• Hamed Saber, http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/389212454/
• epSos .de, http://www.flickr.com/photos/epsos/5394616925/

57. Thank You!
• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja
• http://www.hanspoldoja.net