Revised version, for a local retreat.

1. Canoe the
Open Content Rapids
Dorothea Salo
University of Wisconsin
21 October 2009
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3336/142845984/

2. You’ve heard this too,
right?
• “My students are doing digital
storytelling. I tell them to go to Google
Images and use what they find there.
How should I tell them to credit the
creator?”
ARGH.

3. The public domain

4. Google Books!
• All the legal wrangling is about
orphan works.
• Public-domain books will be freely
available through Google and Hathi.
• Enjoy!

5. Building the digital
public domain
• Musopen: http://www.musopen.com/
• Flickr Commons: http://flickr.com/
commons
• Project Gutenberg: http://
www.gutenberg.org/

6. Government documents

7. Three cheers for the feds!
• Work produced by federal employees
in the course of their jobs is in the
public domain.
• Unless it’s confidential or something, of course.
• This means more than text!
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opalsson/3089698096/

8. The Cod of Ethics...
from the US Fish and Wildlife Service:
http://www.fws.gov/digitalmedia/
Logo design by Steve Lawson.

9. http://nasaimages.org/

10. Open Access

11. Finding OA materials
• OAIster
• Now part of WorldCat
• OA-specific search engine coming early 2010
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• http://doaj.org/
• Google and Google Scholar

12. Open Educational
Resources

13. Open courses
• MIT Open CourseWare
• http://ocw.mit.edu/
• Nearly 2000 courses!
• Open Learn from the Open University
• http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php
• Stanford Engineering Everywhere
• http://see.stanford.edu/
• Try the OCW Finder!
• http://ocwfinder.com/

14. Open learning materials
• OER Commons
• http://www.oercommons.org/
• K-12 and college-level
• MERLOT
• College-level
• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• Pointers to external resources
• Try a directory!
• http://opened.creativecommons.org/ODEPO
• http://academicearth.org/

15. Creative Commons

16. Creative Commons
• What if you want people to reuse your
stuff?
• You could grant it to the public domain...
• ... but then anybody can do anything with it.
• Creative Commons is a middle ground.
• Licensing copyrighted works to all comers for reuse!
• Under certain conditions...
• http://creativecommons.org/

17. CC license provisions
• BY: Must attribute to creator.
• On all CC licenses except CC0/PDD (public domain dedication)
• ND: No derivative works.
• NC: Non-commercial use only.
• SA: Share-alike
• Release your new work under the same license.
• These can be combined!

18. Where to find
CC-licensed works
• Images: Flickr
• Has its own CC search, or use
• Flickr Storm: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
• GREAT source of legally-usable images for your projects and your
students’ projects!
• Music: ccMixter
• http://ccmixter.org/
• Also see http://incompetech.com/ (yes, really)
• Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/en/

19. Or look through...
• “30+ Places to Find Creative Commons
Media”
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/30/30-creative-
commons-sources/
• “25+ Sources for Creative Commons
Content”
• http://mashable.com/2007/10/27/creative-commons/
• “Copyright Friendly Image Sources”
• http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbworks.com/Copyright+Friendly
+Image+Sources
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattsheppard/109623841/

20. Add to the rapids!

21. Do not be this!
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrpattersonsir/47072047/

22. Digitization
• Do not engage in copyfraud!
• If it’s public domain, digitization does not re-copyright it.
• Make reuse rights or licenses clear.
• Use Creative Commons licenses
(including CC0) whenever possible!
• Join Flickr Commons
• Think about digitization when you
accept unpublished materials.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/schex/193912573/

23. Publication
• Open access starts at home!
• We look bad when we tout open access to faculty and then
don’t practice it ourselves.
• Read your next publication agreement.
Amend it if necessary.
• Use MINDS@UW!
• And encourage your colleagues and your faculty to use it.
• Activism!
• http://taxpayeraccess.org/
• OSTP on OA to federally-funded works.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/butterflysha/135659489/

24. Outreach
• Tell people about Creative Commons.
• Great for classroom needs!
• Instead of being copyright cop, be Creative Commons advocate!
• Credit visibly so that you can field
questions.
• Never ask permission when open
content will do!
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/159588834/

25. Paddle on!
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