Post on 07-Dec-2014
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Open educational resource community LeMill —
Copyright Issues
Hans PõldojaTallinn University
What is LeMill?
• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources: http://lemill.net
• 2153 teachers and learning content creators from 40 countries, 1125 learning resources, 206 methods and 387 tools
• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE
Simple licensing scheme
• All resources created in LeMill are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license
• Media pieces can be also under:
- Creative Commons Attribution license
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Public Domain
• References to external content under any license
Reusing open content
2 500 000media files
6 900 000BY
4 900 000BY-SAphotos
5000content modules
Embedding copyrighted content
Why BY-SA?
• Open is not enough, educational resources should be free to use in any context
• Reasons not to use Noncommercial restriction: http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC
• ShareAlike resriction protects authors
Problems
• Other Estonian initiatives do not guide people to use BY-SA license
• Teachers remix CC licenses that can not be remixed
• Teachers upload copyrighted content
Approximate distribution of copyleft licenses for content
26%
26%
48%
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/355
Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlikeAttribution–ShareAlikeGNU Free Documentation License
Future plans
• Better tools for copyright management
• Upgrading to BY-SA 3.0
• Double licensing: BY-SA + GNU FDL
• Meet the requirements for Free Cultural Works
Requirements for Free Cultural Works
• Availability of source data
• Use of a free format
• No technical restrictions
• No other restrictions or limitations
http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
Thank you!
• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
• Skype: hanspoldoja
• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja/