Creative Commons and COVID-19: A Brief Overview
As part of the ongoing series of free webinars Copyright, Fair Dealing and Online Teaching at a Time of Crisis hosted by ALT, Brigitte Vézina from Creative Commons recently joined Jane Secker and Chris Morrision of UK Copyright Literacy, to talk about using Creative Commons open licences. A full recording of the webinar can be viewed here and Brigitte’s slides are available here: Creative Commons and COVID-19: A Brief Overview.
Brigitte also introduced Creative Commons Open Covid Pledge, which encourages organisations to make their intellectual property available free of charge for use in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and minimizing the impact of the disease.
Lorna Campbell from the OER Service livetweeted the main points from the webinar and some of the subsequent discussion.
.@Brigitte_Vezina Comparing copyright to land enclosure. @creativecommons licences allow copyright holders to leave the gate open. People can enter without having to continually knock on your door. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina Open content isn't just free, it has conditions that permit people to re-use it. @creativecommons try to make existing copyright laws more amenable to re-use and sharing. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina CC BY NC ND is the most restrictive @creativecommons licence and CC BY the most permissive. CC0 is a tool which enables content to enter the public domain. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina Format shifting, correcting typos, adding a work to a collection, including an unaltered image in a text or post are *not* considered Derivatives under the terms of the No Derivatives licence. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina Using a No Derivatives licence for academic publications is not advise as it limits how the work can be used and does not protect against plagiarism. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
Why Sharing Academic Publications Under “No Derivatives” Licenses is Misguided by @Brigitte_Vezina of @creativecommons https://t.co/hDH01e7NLq #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@cbowiemorrison Has never seen any evidence of CC licences being used as justification for academic plagiarism. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina WRT the Non Commercial licence, you have to consider the *use* of the work, and not the nature of the organisation using it. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina Not all education uses are Non Commercial, you have to consider each use case individually. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina Limitations and exceptions to @creativecommons licences do apply. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina You can not put NC content into a course pack that students have to buy, unless the cost only covers the cost of production and there is no attempt to make a profit. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina Publicly funded resources should be available under open licence, so the can be used widely by the public. The importance of this has been highlighted by the current crisis. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
Clarification on Adaptation rights wrt literary, dramatic or musical works under UK copyright law https://t.co/Y5o1J9bsb9 #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
Interesting discussion on the particulars of the Share Alike licence, confirming that if you use a CC BY SA licensed image, from @WikiCommons for example, any derivatives must also be CC BY SA licensed. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@Brigitte_Vezina: @creativecommons do not recommend using ND licences in academic contexts as it prevents translation and adaptation. ND licences do not prevent plagiarism, which is better dealt with under codes of academic conduct, etc. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
.@DrEmilyHudson Noting that sometimes the ND licence is useful to prevent a resource from being changed in a misleading way. E.g. Changing a point of law. #altc
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) May 22, 2020
