CCLearn and Open.Michigan are working together to study the ways in which copyright law plays a role in the practices of those who create or help facilitate the creation of Open Educational Resources (OER). It is our goal to develop a deeper awareness of the degree to which OER practitioners and users grapple with copyright law issues, and whether those issues pose barriers to the creation, dissemination, and reuse of OER.
We invite you to share your perspectives by taking the OER Copyright Survey and to read more about the study on the Copyright Exceptions and Limitations section of the OpenEd website. The survey should take only 10 - 15 minutes of your time.
If you know of other colleagues - especially individuals outside the U.S., Canada, England, and Australia - who would be interested in participating in this survey, please forward it to them. The survey closes on August 31, so we encourage all to fill it out soon!
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You may have heard rumors that some of the US OCW producers have been working on a project to explore issues of Fair Use in Open Educational Resources. Fair Use is the US version of a phenomena more generally known as Copyright Exceptions and Limitations, and most OCW projects have started out with the conservative assumption that they don’t get much fair use coverage. Some lawyers are starting to say otherwise, however, so the Fair Use Working Group is gathering data about how OERs in the US are negotiating Fair Use. The hope is to publish a Code of Best Practice for OER later in the year.
But the OCWC is a global consortium, so the Fair Use project is only one part of a larger initiative to explore the implications of Copyright Exceptions and Limitations (CELs) for OER’s. We’ve started a wiki page for this larger initiative entitled Copyright Exceptions and Limitations, where you can see a conceptual map for the larger project as we see it so far. You’ll also see a link to a draft page for gathering data about CELs in different legal jurisdictions. Use the comment tabs on either page to share your ideas! We’ll be hosting a working session on International Copyright Exceptions and Limitations at the OCWC Global Meeting in Monterrey, Mexico next month, with Ahrash Bissell from CC Learn as our facilitator. At the session we’ll discuss what additional data it would be useful to gather and walk through the data gathering process.
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