Written by Andrew Rens on May 4th, 2009
I am currently putting together a course (all the resources will be open) intended to enable open educators, formal, informal, university and school, to navigate the complexities of copyright law and licensing on educational resources.
There is so much that one could include but I’ve pared it down to ten units that I have listed below. I am looking for comments and criticisms on the list.
If you are a non lawyer who must grapple with copyright law to make decisions about educational resources then what would you want to find out about?
The 12 topics (modules?) are:
1.what is copyright?
2.why copyright?
3.licences
4.exceptions
5.copyright and education
6.exceptions for teaching and learning
7.open licences
8.using open educational resources in education
9.choosing and using open licences for educational resources
10. using materials under exceptions in open educational resources
11. badly broken (click wrap licences, DRM’s, TPM’s, and anti-circumvention provisions)
12. the knowledge commons
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Tags: Knowledge Commons, OER, Open Education
Written by Andrew Rens on April 29th, 2009
The African Commons Project has launched a campaign to stop and the regulations proposed control research under the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research Act.
The campaign calls for an extension of the time for those concerned (which includes every academic and researcher in South Africa) to comment on the draft. The call which has already met with (partial) success by a brief but significant extension to 29 May 2009.
The African Commons project campaign page enables you to respond with links to the Act, and academic studies across the world of the effect of similar legislation, as well a collaborative drafting process to analyse and respond to the many concerns raised by the regulations. Join the campaign now!
Posted in Privatising Public Knowledge | Comments Off on Stop the Regulations with the African Commons Project
Tags: Privatise Public Knowledge, research policy, TACP
