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This video is of the “Copyright, Licensing, Open Access” session from the 18-19 March 2013 “MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?” event hosted by OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. As courses are being offered online to a diverse and geographically distributed audience, what are the challenges for licensing and clearing copyright for materials used in courses? Are there opportunities for advancing the conversation on open access with faculty? Featuring Brandon Butler, Director of Public Policy Initiatives, Association of Research Libraries; Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke University; Kenny Crews, Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University; and Kyle K. Courtney, Manager of Faculty Research and Scholarship, Harvard Law School. See the MOOCs and Libraries event page athttp://www.oclc.org/research/events/2… for a complete overview of this event.
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Open Education Week
Starts today!Open Education Week is taking place from 11-15 March 2013 online and in locally hosted events around the world. The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement and opportunities it creates in teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources are free an open to everyone.
Growth in use of the CC-BY license
A total of 252,418 articles were published with the CC-BY license during the period shown above.
Wiley extends open access license choice for authors publishing OnlineOpen
Blog entry on wiley blog.Researchers opt to limit uses of open-access publications
In many parts of the world, anyone wishing to re-use papers must get permission from the copyright owner (usually either the publisher or the author). Often, the owner will forbid re-use or demand payment. Supporters of open access argue that free papers should come with licences attached, making it clear what kinds of re-use are allowed.Nature. See also the discussion following the article.
Open Access and the Complexity of Digital Rights
How should we use the internet? This question covers many issues. Should the sharing of all types of data be authorised? Who can access which data and under which conditions? Who should have oversight and control over it ?These questions and further aspects of the opportunities of and limitations to open access are described in this article. Read also this post on OKFN Blog about the Consequences, risks and side-effects of the license module “non-commercial use only”.
Leading history journal editors take on the Research Councils UK
What is really needed, though, is a thorough analysis of optimum embargo periods by discipline and/or a plan for monitoring the effectiveness of different embargo periods in different disciplines.Historians revolt against RCUK’s embargo periods and the CC-BY licences which would not fit to their way research is done, they say.
CC0 the no-copyright license
CC0 the no-copyright licenseThe person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.
You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
Excerpt of CC0 1.0 (universal) public domain dedication.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvwp5LK_Wko
The OER (Open Educational Resources) IPR Support Project have developed this fabulous animation to introduce the importance of open data licensing in an engaging way.
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COAR has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses”
COAR has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses”COAR is currently working on agreements and licences for open access publications by collecting different versions of already existing licences through an open call: participate by writing to Anna Luden (see email below).
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has formed a Task Force for “Open Access Agreements and Licenses” with members representing both the repository community as well as the licensing community. (…) They are now collecting different versions of open access clauses (e.g. author rights, self-archiving, parallel publication, compensation for Open Access material etc.) from your existing licenses, and also samples of agreements with gold open access publishers. Please send your replies to anna.lunden@kb.se .