Introduction to Open content licensing for educational content.

1. Introduction to
Open Content Licensing
Akhlesh Agarwal
24 Apr 2014
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3. • A non-profit organization in California, USA.
• Has released several copyright-licenses known
as Creative Commons licenses free of charge
to the public.
• These allow creators to communicate which
rights they reserve, and which rights
they waive for the benefit of recipients or
other creators.
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http://creativecommons.org/

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6. • This license lets others distribute, remix,
tweak, and build upon your work, even
commercially, as long as they credit you for
the original creation. This is the most
accommodating of licenses offered.
Recommended for maximum dissemination
and use of licensed materials.
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Attribution
CC BY
This is the default license for Youtube videos
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468

7. • This license lets others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work even for commercial
purposes, as long as they credit you and
license their new creations under the identical
terms.
This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended
for materials that would benefit from incorporating content
from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
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Attribution – Share Alike
CC BY - SA

8. Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
• This license allows for redistribution,
commercial and non-commercial, as long as it
is passed along unchanged and in whole, with
credit to you.
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9. • This license lets others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work non-commercially, and
although their new works must also
acknowledge you and be non-commercial,
they don’t have to license their derivative
works on the same terms.
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Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC

10. • This license lets others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work non-commercially, as long as
they credit you and license their new
creations under the identical terms.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
Khan Academy and NPTEL content is licenced under this license
https://www.khanacademy.org/about/tos#7
http://nptel.ac.in/pdf/CC%20LIcenseNotes.pdf

11. • This license is the most restrictive of six main
licenses, only allowing others to download
your works and share them with others as
long as they credit you, but they can’t change
them in any way or use them commercially.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND

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13. Fair use
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• A limitation and exception to the exclusive
right granted by copyright law to the author of a
creative work.
• A set of tacit guidelines and conventions that enable
users to use part of the copyrighted material without
formal consent of the original creator. Fair use is
limited to a very strict and specific purposes
including" criticism, comment, news reporting,
teaching (including multiple copies for classroom
use), scholarship, or research."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

14. Fair use
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http://www.commonsense.org/

15. Conclusion
• We can reuse most* material downloaded
from internet, if:
– We mention the creator of the material (Person /
URL).
– Use it for non commercial purpose (teaching NU
students)
– Use it on our internal network Moodle only (not
upload on YouTube or other external sites).
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(*): Disclaimer : This is based on limited study of available material. There may be some situations
in which this conclusion may not hold completely. Please seek additional legal opinion. Author of
the document will not be responsible for any financial damages in case of legal dispute.

16. Thank you
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