have the licensing talk early to maximize impact
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Have the licensing talk early to
maximize impact: Experiences
from three collaborative projects
Dominik Lukes@TechCzech - Researchity.net
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Three projects:
iLearnRW, Load2Learn, LDD Navigator
Alt title:
How I found out
I’m a licensing geek!
Typed up in a few hours
Why?
People have inflated
expectations of the value of
their IP
People are ignorant of
copyright law implications
Content everyone wants
shared cannot be reused
due to unclear copyright
ownership
Solution?
Have the licensing talk early!
Licensing talking
points
Value of IP
How are we leveraging the
value of our IP?
Who sees our IP and would
we benefit more if it was out
in the open being used by
people?
Do we have any IP locked
away in documents that
have not been used by
anyone but may have impact
if shared openly?
Lack of clarity in a
collaborative project
Who owns the copyright?
Are all people working on a
collaborative project under
the same contract with their
institution?
How about copyright
ownership under different
jurisdictions? May not
always be enforceable by
contract?
What are specific conditions
of use once all principals
involved in creation and
collaboration leave?
Reality of Open
Licensing
You still OWN copyright of
openly licensed materials!
Open licences can offer
more realistic protection of
your IP by securing
attribution.
Many materials in education
with permission to copy
already effectively BY NC
SA.
Open licences give explicit
permission and remove
incorrect assumptions about
ownership.
Open Licensing
avoids awkward
conversations…
“I thought we owned that.”
“We can only use this internally because we’re not sure if we own it.”
“We need to get a permission from X who left 2 year ago before we can use this.”
Open Licensing
business models
You can still sell openly
licensed materials
(printed versions, special
formats, content
subscriptions, …).
Openly Licensed materials
can be doing the work of
advertising other services.
Openly Licensed materials
can directly support a
charitable mission.
Other sources of funding /
crowdsourcing can be
available for the
development and
maintenance of openly
licensed content.
Recommendations
Content
CC BY or CC BY SA
Code
Modified BSD or (a)GPL
Results
All three projects where this
was proposed accepted the
idea in principle.
1. Accepted with more
restrictive license (added
NC).
2. Accepted with more
liberal license (BY instead of
BY SA)
3. Accepted as proposed
(BY SA)
It takes more work to get
from agreement to actual
implementation, but…
Load2Learn.org.uk/training/cuecards
OER Videos on
YouTube.com/Load2Learn
iLearnRW will release code and content
bit.ly/cc-teachers
Image credits
Rainbow Bee-eater, food transfer by David and
Dorothy Jenkins CC BY NC SA https://www.flickr.com/photos/78742710@N08/16174327408
Thank you
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