Creative commons:
In this increasingly digital age, the work of educators and students who are increasingly becoming content creators and consumers, needs to be simplified. Creative Commons has been created to allow an author to automatically grant another person, gratuitous permission to do a variety of things. Creative Commons provides innovative ways to share resources and demonstrate learning by including the ability to reuse, re-energise and distribute material that might ordinarily be protected by copyright law. Creative Commons includes a series of 6 possible copyright licenses which elucidate what a person is able to do with content that has been licensed, using one of the licenses in the suite. The link below provides a useful introduction to Creative Commons and copyright information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkbeycRa2A Copyright and The Berne Convention The Berne Convention was signed in 1886. It states that all artistic and literary works automatically have copyright, without any need to apply for it. It also says that countries signing the convention have to enforce the copyright of citizens of all countries that have signed it. Currently 172 states are parties to the convention. Open Educational Resources Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that have been made available to the public through a Creative Commons license. They are free to use and access for both students and educators. OER commons is a platform where you can search for and download materials from a wide range of subjects. www.oercommons.org Open Source - “Free as in speech, not free as in beer”; Richard Stallman’s famous quote describes the spirit of open source, which describes computer software where the underlying source code is open and accessible for anyone to run, study, distribute and redistribute modified versions; as long as the user passes on these same freedoms. The guarantee that this will happen is usually created by the application of a licence, the best known of which are the GNU licences. Open Access Open Access it’s free and easy access to scientific data, academic journals articles, conference papers, theses, book chapters and monographs. There are two levels of open access: gratis and libre. Gratis means online access free of charge. Libre means online access free of charge with additional usage rights. |