Episode 22 As learning moves online and educators and learners look to use and share materials, there are issues regarding copyright and educational exemptions that both groups need to consider.
What is legal to use in a classroom often is not legal to make available to the wider internet, despite an educational use or context.
If you want to share something you’ve created as an educator – you might not be able to do so legally.
Creative Commons, an international movement to create licenses that allow creators to freely share their works online, is one way of lessening the confusion.
MCEETYA (the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) and Creative Commons Australia are teaming up to help educators thread their way through the maze – so they can advise learners and model best practice.
In this episode, we talk with Delia Browne, National Copyright Director for MCEETYA and Jessica Coates, Project Manager, Creative Commons Clinic, Queensland University of Technology.
Recorded 4 March 2009.
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I find it frustrating that many countries are intimidated by the US into to extending copyright lifetime and overturning civil liberties to protect outdated media distribution models. Yet we don’t have some of the wonderful civic minded protections the US enjoys.
Works by the US government are not protected by copyright under 17 USC § 105. What a wonderful return to the taxpayer. Here we have sections of the Copyright Act 1968 that lock up taxpayer funded works where they are rarely exploited and creative reuse becomes nonexistant. Whats more government employees are locked out of contributing to the open content community without ponderous exemptions.
Lets all go to Canberra with an amendment to the Copyright act and remove copyright from future government works unless the government specifically grants an agency an exemption.
Lets stop extending copyright expiry while we have a gun pointed at out head.
Lets strengthen out right to fair use outside of the education community.
How about a right to free speech while we are at it so we can engage in criticism.
This is not a radical agenda. We constantly refer to overseas laws when we remove civil rights in the war on terror, war on drugs, war on piracy or war on the Internet. Why can’t we learn from good laws for a change?
Learning is an ever-ending process. We never stop learning everyday. As the world became smaller and smaller due to the Internet, it is of best interest for both students and educators alike to share information or works online for both the whole world to see. However, with due respect to the creators having certain laws such as copyrights should be well-adept to give what is due to those hardworking creators or educators.
One interesting aspect of some of the Creative Commons material is the ShareAlike requirement.
It’s rather interesting to watch some teachers use this material freely but not be willing to re-share the products they produce.
@The Black Adder - I advise all educators that they need to check out their contracts to find out who owns the IP they create before they use CC materials with the share alike option. Often it’s institutions that own the IP that educators (and Education Officers) create - so we cannot use Share Alike unless we can get clearance to share from our institutions.
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[…] You can also listen to a recent interview I did with Delia Browne, National Copyright Director for MCEETYA and Jessica Coates, Project Manager, Creative Commons Clinic, Queensland University of Technology last month as they were finalising these fact sheets: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/e-insights/2009/03/12/copyright-and-creative-commons-episode-22-e-learning-insights/ […]
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