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Have the licensing talk early to maximize impact: Experiences from three collaborative projects

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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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Slide 2: Attribution-ShareAlike

Attribution-ShareAlike

Creative Commons icons in black circles on white: the “cc” mark, a person (attribution) and a circular arrow (share-alike).

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Slide 3: Questions / comments

Questions / comments

@TechCzech

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Slide 4: Presentation on j.mp/licensing-talk

Presentation on j.mp/licensing-talk

Screenshot of a SlideShare page showing this talk's title slide (“Have the licensing talk early to maximize impact: Experiences from three collaborative projects”, Dominik Lukes, @TechCzech - Researchity.net) in the player, “1 of 45”, beside a “Recommended” list of other presentations by the same author, including “Copyright and Creative Commons for Teachers” and “Investigating literacy teachers' linguistic knowledge”.

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Slide 5: Three projects:

Three projects:

iLearnRW, Load2Learn, LDD Navigator

Screenshot of the iLearnRW project website home page, with a photograph of a laptop on a table.

Screenshot of the Load2Learn website, a RNIB and Dyslexia Action service, with its menu, a description of learning resources in accessible formats and “Get started” buttons.

Screenshot of the LDD Navigator website of Learning Difficulties and Disabilities in the Justice System, with an eye icon and a clipboard icon under the questions “What are the signs?” and “What do I do?”.

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Slide 6: Alt title:

Alt title:

How I found out

I’m a licensing geek!

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Slide 7: Typed up in a few hours

Typed up in a few hours

Screenshot of a Word document titled “Consultation paper: Intellectual Property Licensing Models for … outputs DRAFT, v1”, with a Word Count dialog open showing 14 pages and 2,815 words.

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Slide 8: Why?

Why?

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Slide 9: People have inflated expectations of the value of their IP

People have inflated expectations of the value of their IP

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Slide 10: People are ignorant of copyright law implications

People are ignorant of copyright law implications

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Slide 11: Content everyone wants shared cannot be reused due to unclear copyright ownership

Content everyone wants shared cannot be reused due to unclear copyright ownership

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Slide 12: Solution?

Solution?

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Slide 13: Have the licensing talk early!

Have the licensing talk early!

Photograph of two rainbow bee-eaters on a branch against a blue sky; one passes a dragonfly to the other, which spreads orange wings.

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Slide 14: Licensing talking points

Licensing talking points

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Slide 15: Value of IP

Value of IP

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Slide 16: How are we leveraging the value of our IP?

How are we leveraging the value of our IP?

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Slide 17: Who sees our IP and would we benefit more if it was out in the open being used by people?

Who sees our IP and would we benefit more if it was out in the open being used by people?

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Slide 18: Do we have any IP locked away in documents that have not been used by anyone but may have impact if shared openly?

Do we have any IP locked away in documents that have not been used by anyone but may have impact if shared openly?

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Slide 19: Lack of clarity in a collaborative project

Lack of clarity in a collaborative project

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Who owns the copyright? Are all people working on a collaborative project under the same contract with their institution?

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Slide 21: How about copyright ownership under different jurisdictions? May not always be enforceable by contract?

How about copyright ownership under different jurisdictions? May not always be enforceable by contract?

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Slide 22: What are specific conditions of use once all principals involved in creation and collaboration leave?

What are specific conditions of use once all principals involved in creation and collaboration leave?

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Slide 23: Reality of Open Licensing

Reality of Open Licensing

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Slide 24: You still OWN copyright of openly licensed materials!

You still OWN copyright of openly licensed materials!

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Slide 25: Open licences can offer more realistic protection of your IP by securing attribution.

Open licences can offer more realistic protection of your IP by securing attribution.

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Slide 26: Many materials in education with permission to copy already effectively BY NC SA.

Many materials in education with permission to copy already effectively BY NC SA.

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Slide 27: Open licences give explicit permission and remove incorrect assumptions about ownership.

Open licences give explicit permission and remove incorrect assumptions about ownership.

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Slide 28: Open Licensing avoids awkward conversations…

Open Licensing avoids awkward conversations…

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  • “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.”

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Slide 30: Open Licensing business models

Open Licensing business models

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Slide 31: You can still sell openly licensed materials

You can still sell openly licensed materials

(printed versions, special formats, content subscriptions, …).

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Slide 32: Openly Licensed materials can be doing the work of advertising other services.

Openly Licensed materials can be doing the work of advertising other services.

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Slide 33: Openly Licensed materials can directly support a charitable mission.

Openly Licensed materials can directly support a charitable mission.

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Other sources of funding / crowdsourcing can be available for the development and maintenance of openly licensed content.

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Slide 35: Recommendations

Recommendations

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  • Content
    • CC BY or CC BY SA
  • Code
    • Modified BSD or (a)GPL

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Slide 37: Results

Results

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Slide 38: All three projects where this was proposed accepted the idea in principle.

All three projects where this was proposed accepted the idea in principle.

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  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)

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Slide 40: It takes more work to get from agreement to actual implementation, but…

It takes more work to get from agreement to actual implementation, but…

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Slide 41: Load2Learn.org.uk/training/cuecards

Load2Learn.org.uk/training/cuecards

First page of the “Computer Productivity and Accessibility Cue Cards”, a printed leaflet of tips for people who would like to improve their computer productivity, with a Creative Commons licence notice at the bottom.

Cue card “How to make your own Cue Cards”, a page of numbered instructions.

Cue card “14 Essential Universal Shortcuts”, a table of keyboard shortcuts with their effects.

Cue card “WordTalk Quick Guide”, with installation instructions and a table of keyboard shortcuts for speaking text.

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Slide 42: OER Videos on YouTube.com/Load2Learn

OER Videos on YouTube.com/Load2Learn

Screenshot of a YouTube video page, “Accessible text practice - Load2Learn Screencast” by the Load2Learn Project: the video title frame shows the CC BY NC SA licence icons and “Copyright © 2012 Dyslexia Action and RNIB”, beside a playlist of other Load2Learn screencasts.

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Slide 43: iLearnRW will release code and content

iLearnRW will release code and content

Screenshot of an iLearnRW game page: a sentence “and every night I … this song for her” with a hand dragging the word “sing” into the gap, above a cartoon of three skeleton musicians in sombreros and a caption “Project Partners”.

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Slide 44: bit.ly/cc-teachers

bit.ly/cc-teachers

Screenshot of a SlideShare page showing the title slide of “Copyright and Creative Commons for Teachers: How to get legal resources for your PowerPoints and other teaching materials” in the player, “1 of 94”, beside a “Recommended” list of other presentations.

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Slide 45: Image credits

Image credits

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Rainbow Bee-eater, food transfer by David and Dorothy Jenkins CC BY NC SA https://www.flickr.com/photos/78742710@N08/16174327408

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Slide 47: Thank you

Thank you

@TechCzech

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