Copyright and Open Licensing

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Copyright and Open
Licensing
Sanjaya Mishra
Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

3. Meaning of Terms
 Author/Creator: is the originator of any
written work
 Copyright: exclusive right given by law to the
author/creator of a work
 What can be copyrighted? – Any work which is
not an exact copy of someone else’s work
 Can ideas be copyrighted? No… only
expression of ideas are copyrighted...
 Can copyright be transferred? Yes, an author
can assign copyright to another person, as in
the case of property

4. Copyright
Exclusive rights given by law
to the original creator/author
 To get credit
 To copy
 To distribute
 To license
 To sell/make economic
transaction
 To perform

5. Further Copyright…
 Prohibits unauthorized use,
distribution, performance,
adaptation, sell, etc.
 Requires permission of the
Copyright holder for creating any
derivative works
 Fair use or fair dealing is though
permitted
 Fair use covers Examples of fair
use include commentary, search
engines, criticism, news reporting,
research, teaching, library
archiving and scholarship.

6. Open Licenses
Creative Commons
 CC-BY
 CC-BY-SA
 CC-BY-NC
 CC-BY-NC-SA
 CC-BY-ND
 CC-BY-NC-ND
Concepts
 Attribution
 Share Alike
 Non-Commercial
 Non-Derivative

7. Why Creative Commons
 Legal Code: expansive legal
languages tested in several
cases
 Commons Code: Simple icon-
based approach to explain
what you can do want you
can’t
 Digital Code: Enables search
engines to search and locate
through CC Rights Expression
Language

8. OER: Remix

9. OER: Remix

10. Remix Case 1
 Consider a publication where the
author has identified the
following to be included. Decide
what license should be needed
and how you will go about it.
– Original texts plus, images from CC-
BY-SA, also texts from CC-BY-NC.
– Author has also indicated use of
some Copyrighted materials, and
have permission to be used by your
institution

11. Remix Case 2
 Consider a publication where the author
has identified the following to be
included. Decide what license should be
needed and how you will go about it.
– Original texts plus, images and texts
from PD
– Author has also indicated use of some
texts from CC-BY sources
– There are large number of images
from online sources, the author has
not credited

12. Using CC Licenses

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