Overview

This week we focus on the growing open access movement, which aims to create a pool of completely free, legally reusable material by making it easier for copyright owners to share their material with others, should they so choose. This is achieved by providing broad licences that creators can apply to their material to give permission in advance for certain uses. One of the most popular open access models is the Creative Commons system, which applies to all different types of creative materials and provides a range of licences with different levels of freedom. There are more than 500 million Creative Commons licensed works available on the internet, all of which can be legally reused as long as the particular licence the author has chosen is followed. Creative Commons builds on the 'all rights reserved' system of default copyright law to allow for a voluntary 'some rights reserved' system.

Reading and resources

General Resources:

• P2PU: Get CC Savvy Challenges: https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/

• P2PU: Creative Commons for K-12 Educators: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/9/creative-commons-for-k-12-educators/

• P2PU: Into to Openness in Education: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/140/intro-to-openness-in-education/

• Video on howto find CC licensed images on flickr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu8DSZvyw2E

Selected links to the Creative Commons website:

• OER: http://creativecommons.org/education

• Educators resources: http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/educators-resources

Selected links to Smartcopying website:

• Creative Commons for education: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/904

• Teachers and Students Creative Commons information Pack: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956

Selected powerpoint presentations from the National Copyright Unit's slideshare site:

• IDEA conference presentation - Copyright Law Reform and Open Education Resources
  

• Part 5: Open Education, Free for Education and Creative Commons
  

Additional resources:

• Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice: http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=412

• Building An Australasian Commons - case studies: http://creativecommons.org.au/casestudiesvol1

• OER and the Common Core: http://online.qmags.com/TJL0213#pg34&mode1

• Get a CC licence. Put it on your website: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/3/get-a-cc-license-put-it-on-your-website/

• Creative Commons licences: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

• Choosing a Creative Commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

• Creative commons info re before licensing: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing

• Attribution tool: http://openattribute.com/

• Creative commons FAQ: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ

• Info on publishing under a CC licence: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Publish

• Info on marking CC licenced material: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

• CC Fact Sheets: http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/fact-sheets

• Videos on Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/videos