Licensing OER and other Materials for Teachers and Curriculum Administrators/Specialists

Jason Neffer, M.Sci., ABD Montana Digital Academy the University of Montana

@techsavvyteach http://www.techsavvyteacher.com

Image: Danilela Hartmann

Paperless Handouts:

http://www.workshophandouts.com/licensingoer

My vantage point…

Image: Tagxedo

Image: Frog Miller/Available via CC BY

Image: Frog Miller available by CC BY

“best practices” “doesn’t constitute not legal advice”

“may or may not” “legal obligation”

“we cannot tell you if that is commercial or not”

The problem…

“Why would bother with all of this Creative Commons nonsense; even images marked with the license are clearly not...”

“Listen… I understand what you are trying to accomplish here but I am 100% sure that nobody is going to come after me for using any materials I want in a classroom.”

So what?

Broad Philosophy

Modeling     Expecta0ons  

Guidance   Follow-­‐up  

Licensing Your Own Materials

Modeling     Expecta0ons  

Guidance   Follow-­‐up  

h8p://jasonlinks.net/oerpolicy  

Who  owns  the  materials?    The  teacher?    The  district?  

Do  you  want  materials  to  be  remixed  and  adapted?  

Do  you  want  to  allow  end  users  to  profit  off  the  use  of  the  materials?  

Do  you  want  to  restrict  their  future  licensing  in  the  future?  

Six licenses for sharing your work

Creative Commons makes sharing easy

What Is Creative Commons?Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting an open and accessible internet that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources for people around the world to use, share, and cultivate.

Our easy-to-use licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Millions of people use CC licenses on some of the world’s most popular platforms for user-generated content. When you use a CC license to share your photos, videos, or blog, your creation joins a globally accessible pool of resources that includes the work of artists, educators, scientists, and governments.

Creative Commons has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this guide using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.

The internet makes it easy for people to share and build on each other’s creations. But sometimes the law makes it hard.

Whenever you snap a photograph, record a song, publish an article, or put your original writing online, that work is automatically considered “all rights reserved” in the eyes of copyright law.

In many cases, that means that other people can’t reuse or remix your work without asking for your permission first.

But what if you want others to reuse your work?

If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you’ve created, consider publishing under a Creative Commons license.

A CC license lets you decide which rights you’d like to keep, and it clearly conveys to those using your work how they’re permitted to use it without asking you in advance.

Our free, easy-to-use licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choosing. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. By default, copyright allows only limited reuses without your permission. CC licenses let you grant additional permissions to the public, allowing reuse on the terms best suited to your needs while reserving some rights for yourself.

We’ve collaborated with copyright experts around the world to ensure that our licenses work globally.

If you are looking for content that you can freely and legally use, there is a wealth of CC-licensed creativity available to you. There are hundreds of millions of works—from songs and videos to scientific and academic material—available to the public for free and legal use under the terms of our licenses, with more being contributed every day.

Step 1: Choose License FeaturesPublishing under a Creative Commons license is easy. First, choose the conditions that you want to apply to your work.

Attribution All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first.

ShareAlikeYou let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first.

NoDerivsYou let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get your permission first.

NonCommercialYou let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen NoDerivs) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first.

Step 2: Get a LicenseBased on your choices, you will get a license that clearly indicates how other people may use your creative work.

AttributionCC BY

Attribution — NonCommercial — NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND

Attribution — NonCommercial — ShareAlikeCC BY-NC-SA

Attribution — NoDerivsCC BY-ND

Attribution — NonCommercialCC BY-NC

Attribution — ShareAlikeCC BY-SA

h8p://jasonlinks.net/sharingyourwork  

Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪ No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‏

By  Karen  Fasimpaur  available  via  CC  BY    

Attribution (BY) is the least restrictive license

If you are a teacher…

1.  Check with your district on materials ownership/permission to release resources as open resources.

2.  Be certain that you are vetting OER materials you are using before you release and mind the restrictions.

3.  Confirm and verify what any place that you release your materials is also putting your correct license choice in association with your materials.

If you are an administrator…

1.  Learn with your staff to make sure that they understand the reason for openly releasing materials before they do so.

2.  Pull teachers into the decision of which license to use, but make an institutional decision.

3.  Check to see how your materials are used elsewhere (ask for an email!).

4.  Share successes with your staff to encourage future development.

5.  Develop specific guidance and workflow on HOW licenses are displayed and where materials are released.

Purposeful decision-making

Use of OER Materials in Your School

Modeling     Expecta0ons  

Guidance   Follow-­‐up  

Freedom  to  Crea0ve  Engaging  Learning  Environments  

Mindfulness  to  the  legal  and  philosophical  restric0ons  of  open  

licenses  

Perfectly okay to acknowledge that this is complex… Perfectly okay to acknowledge complexity exists in this discussion…

Does  your  use  case  create  limit  what  materials  you  can  use  base  

on  license?  

How  can  you  cite  the  appropriate  materials?  

Do  you  and  your  teachers  have  the  nuanced  skills  to  iden0fy  

mislabeled  materials?  

Are  you  minding  other  academic  requirements?  

Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪ No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‏

By  Karen  Fasimpaur  available  via  CC  BY    

Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪ No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‏

What does “non-commercial”

mean?

By  Karen  Fasimpaur  available  via  CC  BY    

Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪ No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)‏

What does “share alike” mean?

By  Karen  Fasimpaur  available  via  CC  BY    

h8p://jasonlinks.net/cita0onguide  

Provide  a  style  guide  for  teachers  (and  students)  

Follow  up  when  observing  teachers  to  help  determine  their  

correct  use  

Remember  that  other  obliga0ons  might  exist  for  academic  cita0on  

Encourage  teachers,  project  par0cipants  and  students  to  log  

media/license  use  

Start  with  ve8ed  photo  lists;  you  can  always  go  back  and  add  later.  

Avoid  Google  Images/Bing  Images  unless  you  have  a  nuanced  eye  for  

it.  

If  you  are  working  as  a  teacher  or  with  teachers  on  a  project,  always  

do  proof-­‐of-­‐concept  samples  

If  it  is  too  good  to  be  true,  perhaps  it  is…  J  

Purposeful decision-making

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