User generated content — copyright issues, tools and

technologies

Hans PõldojaTallinn 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.

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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

26%

26%

48%

(Wiley, 2007)

Approximate Distribution of Copyleft Licenses for Content

Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlikeAttribution–ShareAlikeGNU Free Documentation License

You can’t remix them

Creative CommonsAttribution–ShareAlike

license

LeMill

Wikimedia Commons(partly)

USU OCW (partly)

GNUFree Documentation

License

Wikipedia

Wikimedia Commons (partly)

Creative CommonsAttribution–Noncommercial–

ShareAlike license

MIT OCW

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