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Chang v. Virgin Mobile

2010-08-10T21:42:49Z

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{{Case Law
|title=Chang v. Virgin Mobile
|region=United States
|court=Northern District of Texas
|date=2009/01/16
|summary=BACKGROUND

An Australian mobile company used a CC-By licensed Flickr photo of a young girl as part of its advertising campaign launched in 2007. In September 2007, Plaintiffs brought suit against the mobile company under a number of causes of action, including invasion of privacy, copyright violation and breach of contract. They also brought suit against Creative Commons for negligently failing to warn creators that the CC licenses only address copyright and not privacy and publicity rights.
Australian mobile company used a CC-By Flickr photo of a young girl as part of an advertising campaign it launched in June 2007

RESULT

Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed the suit against CC a couple of months after filing their first complaint. The Texas district court later dismissed the case against the mobile company for a lack of personal jurisdiction.
Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed CC from the lawsuit in November 2007
In January 2009, the Texas district court dismissed the case against the mobile company for lack of personal jurisdiction

TAKEAWAY

Creative Commons licenses only address the creator's copyright. It does not cover publicity or privacy rights. Users of CC-licensed material should make sure to clear the publicity and privacy rights of any works containing human subjects before making a commercial use of the work.
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Case Studies/Peer 2 Peer University

2010-07-22T21:16:18Z

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{{Case Study
|Description=The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses.
|Mainurl=http://p2pu.org/
|Author=P2PU
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=OER, education
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
|Format=Text, InteractiveResource
|Country=global
}}
== Overview ==

The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities. P2PU - learning for everyone, by everyone about almost anything.

== License Usage ==

P2PU has developed an in-depth guide to choosing an open license. P2PU chose BY-SA. http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc394dmc_179hdvhk33c

P2PU chose to use Creative Commons licences because Creative Commons have become a global standard and are supported by a large international community.

== Motivations ==

Open licences and the free sharing and reuse of materials online have become increasingly popular. Governments, institutions, communities and individual creators, particularly those in the open education field have realised that effective sharing of knowledge is best facilitated by using open licences, which enable permissions that traditional "All Rights Reserved" copyright does not. While current copyright law creates constraints on collaborative co-production, open licences enable large groups of people to efficiently co-create educational resources.

From the beginning, P2PU has been committed to licensing all the materials we produce under as open a licence as possible. P2PU is a volunteer-driven community that originated from the open education movement. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration describes the open education movement: "Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. They are also planting the seeds of a new pedagogy where educators and learners create, shape and evolve knowledge together, deepening their skills and understanding as they go". We exist to make education more accessible around the world. For this very reason, we felt very strongly that we needed to use an open licence for material collaboratively created by the community. The question was, which one do we choose, and how do we go about reaching consensus?

== Media ==

Case Studies/Peer 2 Peer University

2010-07-22T21:12:30Z

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{{Case Study
|Description=The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses.
|Mainurl=http://p2pu.org/
|Author=P2PU
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=OER, education
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
|Format=Text, InteractiveResource
|Country=global
}}
== Overview ==

The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities. P2PU - learning for everyone, by everyone about almost anything.

== License Usage ==

P2PU has developed an in-depth guide to choosing an open license. P2PU chose BY-SA. http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc394dmc_179hdvhk33c

== Motivations ==

Open licences and the free sharing and reuse of materials online have become increasingly popular. Governments, institutions, communities and individual creators, particularly those in the open education field have realised that effective sharing of knowledge is best facilitated by using open licences, which enable permissions that traditional "All Rights Reserved" copyright does not. While current copyright law creates constraints on collaborative co-production, open licences enable large groups of people to efficiently co-create educational resources.

From the beginning, P2PU has been committed to licensing all the materials we produce under as open a licence as possible. P2PU is a volunteer-driven community that originated from the open education movement. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration describes the open education movement: "Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. They are also planting the seeds of a new pedagogy where educators and learners create, shape and evolve knowledge together, deepening their skills and understanding as they go". We exist to make education more accessible around the world. For this very reason, we felt very strongly that we needed to use an open licence for material collaboratively created by the community. The question was, which one do we choose, and how do we go about reaching consensus?

== Media ==

DiscoverEd Disclaimer

2009-07-20T19:33:48Z

Lila:

DiscoverEd indexes resources that are curated and made available by organizations and people unaffiliated with Creative Commons. The structured data, including the stated copyright license for each work, are automatically detected and rendered by DiscoverEd's indexing software. Creative Commons cannot and does not make any guarantee or warranty as to the accuracy of the results of DiscoverEd searches, and provides all such information AS-IS. Please verify the copyright status, as well as other characteristics, of any resource you find prior to re-using the work.

We strive to maintain functional and accurate indexes of educational resources, and we are interested in hearing about any errors in the information or the rendering of such that you may find. Please [mailto:cclearn-info@creativecommons.org contact us] if you have any problems, comments, or questions. We are particularly interested in helping organizations that curate OER to publish their resources in an extensible, machine-readable fashion so that DiscoverEd (and any other search and discovery tools) can more effectively leverage those data to the benefit of teachers and learners everywhere. Read the [[DiscoverEd_FAQ]] for more information.

I want to make sure that my OER are only for personal use. I should restrict my OER to “personal use” only, right?

2009-07-10T00:15:26Z

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{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=I want to make sure that my OER are only for personal use. I should restrict my OER to “personal use” only, right?
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, personal use
|Answer=You are free to do this, but you should consider the potential confusion this may cause for your users. The term “personal” can be construed in a variety of ways. Does personal use limit me to simply viewing the resource online by myself? Am I only allowed to download one copy, for myself, personally? Or can I distribute a “few” copies to my personal friends? Are my coworkers considered part of my personal circle? Consider the following examples.

Example 1: A graduate student of Theology makes her study available online for personal use only. A professor at another college finds the study and prints out copies for himself and his colleagues. Is this still “personal” use?

Yes: The professor is using the study for himself and his inner circle of colleagues. There is no public resharing of the material online.

No: The professor is not allowed to distribute copies to others. His other colleagues must go directly to the site to obtain the same information.

Example 2: A High School teacher shares a lesson plan online, specifying that its use for “personal use” only. A band decides to take the lesson plan and convert it into a song, and they later upload their performance to YouTube, citing the teacher as the author of the non-musical content. Is this personal use?

Yes: The band’s musical endeavor is personal; they wanted to make a musical composition based on writing and they did it. They also cited the teacher so she would get credit. What’s the problem?

No: Personal use dictates that they should have stopped at making the song, or asked the teacher for permission to share it. They are not allowed to share what they did because that immediately makes it public and impersonal.

Example 3: A filmmaker posts his video on the Constitution on his site, specifying free “personal” uses only; he requires payment for any other use. A government teacher decides to show it to her class. Is this personal use?

Yes: The class is within the bounds of the teacher’s personal life.

No: The classroom is a public setting.

As you can see, the potential conclusions drawn from the above examples are conflicting. Personal use, understood in certain ways, is even more restrictive than the standard exceptions and limitations granted to “all rights reserved” (“ARR”) copyrighted works. ARR copyright allows for more than personal use via fair use and educational exceptions, which allows uses for a variety of purposes, including news reporting, criticism, satire, and research. Therefore, if you restrict your OER to “personal use”, you are giving your users even less freedom than they would have under standard copyright. And that would mean that your educational resources are far from “open.”

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I think I can make something better or more appropriate or in the a different language (etc.) than the OER I am currently learning from. Do I have the right to improve it?

2009-07-10T00:10:36Z

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{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=I think I can make something better or more appropriate or in the a different language (etc.) than the OER I am currently learning from. Do I have the right to improve it?
|Document=Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
|Target audience=learners
|Tag=OER
|Answer=Look to the terms of the license in order to determine how you may use the work legally. If the work has a CC License, the as long as the terms do not include the ND (No Derivatives) restriction, you may legally edit, revise and improve the work.
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I have always used materials from the WWW without any problems, under the auspices of fair-use. Why should I use OER instead?

2009-07-10T00:08:12Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=I have always used materials from the WWW without any problems, under the auspices of fair-use. Why should I use OER instead?
|Document=Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
|Target audience=instructors, OER creators
|Tag=OER, fair use, derivatives
|Answer=Fair use is a four-factor balancing test. While educational use of copyrighted work is a relatively well-established fair use, it is often difficult to predict with certainty whether a particular use would be considered a fair one by courts. When you use OER, you have more certainty regarding what you may do with the resource, because the open license attached to the OER will specify what is permitted. Openly licensed works have additional benefits, such as being enforceable globally (whereas fair use is limited to the U.S.). Additionally, fair use only applies to your own use of existing works; the doctrine does not necessarily permit you to adapt or derive those works and then share those derivatives with your colleagues. By using OER, you open up all manner of additional possibilities for sharing your insights and ideas and making your work have an impact far greater than would otherwise be possible.
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How will I be able to afford the extra costs of training teachers to use OER?

2009-07-09T22:22:20Z

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{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=How will I be able to afford the extra costs of training teachers in these new ways?
|Answer=No training is required for effective use of OER, similar to using any supplemental materials. All that is required is basic understanding of how to use the internet and navigate websites.
|Document=Increase Funding Impact, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
|Target audience=administrators
|Tag=OER
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How will I be able to afford the extra costs of training teachers to use OER?s?

2009-07-09T22:22:20Z

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2009-07-09T22:16:56Z

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2009-07-09T22:16:56Z

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Why is this guide necessary?

2009-07-09T22:15:52Z

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Who is this guide for?

2009-07-09T22:14:27Z

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I want to make sure that the OER I create are used only for truly educational purposes. That means I should limit my works to “educational use only,” right?

2009-07-09T21:45:47Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=I want to make sure that the OER I create are used only for truly educational purposes. That means I should limit my works to “educational use only,” right?
|Tag=OER, educational use
|Answer=It depends. If you are interested in sharing your OER with a wide global audience, then this restriction could cause more harm than good. Sites often specify that resources can be used “for educational use”, “for educational purposes”, or “in an educational setting”. Variations thereof include the additional caveat “for educational….only”. All of these constraints are confusing because the term “educational” is itself inherently unclear. What does “educational” mean exactly? When you think about it, most anything can be construed as educational. One possibility is that the copyright holder meant to limit the work to classroom use. With the more restrictive caveat of “only”, users may assume the most closed interpretation and think that they can only use the work in the classroom. They may be led to believe that they cannot share the work with their peers on the Internet, nor derive it for research or a publication. Confusion causes doubt, and when in doubt, people decide to use your material at all, but seek out resources that are more clearly open. To illustrate, consider the following examples.

Example 1: A graduate student of Theology and comes across old photographs of certain spiritual figures. She decides to make a collage out of these photographs and republish them in a study. This study is picked up by a publisher who wants to sell copies to colleges and universities. Is this still “educational” use?

Yes: Its main aim is to spread the knowledge that the Theology student gained and reinterpreted in a set form.

No: Selling copies, even to colleges and universities, is a commercial enterprise. Its main aim is to make a profit, not to educate. Use should be restricted to non-commercial activities only.

Example 2:  A High School teacher shares a lesson plan online, specifying that its use for “educational purposes” only. A band decides to take the lesson plan and convert it into a song, reposting their performance on YouTube. Is this educational use?

Yes: The rock’s band rendition of the lesson plan is edifying, and an interesting twist to a conventional teaching method.

No: The rock band’s use of the material is for entertainment purposes. At worst, they are making fun of education.

Example 3: A filmmaker makes a video about the constitution. He posts it on his site, stating that it should only be played publicly in “educational settings”; otherwise, he requires payment for its broadcast. A nonprofit researching the Constitution decides to broadcast it at a conference to show people the different kinds of media being made about the Constitution. Is this an “educational setting”?

Yes: The purpose of showing the film is to edify its audience; therefore, the setting is educational.
No: By “educational setting”, the filmmaker obviously meant the classroom or some other formal institutional setting.

As you can see from the above examples, there are many ways to construe the term “educational”. Therefore, making your own custom license, and specifying terms like “educational”, only complicates existing copyright. Especially since “all rights reserved” (ARR) copyright already provides exceptions for certain educational uses. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act (the “Act”) defines fair use, and Sections 108-122 include the bulk of the other exceptions and limitations on the reach of copyright protection in the US. Some of these exceptions pertain to certain educational uses, but even here there is no black and white answer as to what is or is not educational, since the term is not defined in that Act. But because fair use exceptions already address educational use, adding the term yourself is unnecessary, not to mention confusing.  In brief, the lack of clarity is evident with the term “educational”. Without one universal definition on which everyone agrees—a consensus that is unlikely to be reached in this internet age of learners and thinkers—additional terms such as “educational” only serve to confuse and not to clarify.

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I want to make sure that the OER I create are used only for truly educational purposes. That means I should limit my works to “educational use only,” right?

2009-07-09T21:43:49Z

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{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=I want to make sure that the OER I create are used only for truly educational purposes. That means I should limit my works to “educational use only,” right?
|Tag=OER, educational use
|Answer=It depends. If you are interested in sharing your OER with a wide global audience, then this restriction could cause more harm than good. Sites often specify that resources can be used “for educational use”, “for educational purposes”, or “in an educational setting”. Variations thereof include the additional caveat “for educational….only”. All of these constraints are confusing because the term “educational” is itself inherently unclear. What does “educational” mean exactly? When you think about it, most anything can be construed as educational. One possibility is that the copyright holder meant to limit the work to classroom use. With the more restrictive caveat of “only”, users may assume the most closed interpretation and think that they can only use the work in the classroom. They may be led to believe that they cannot share the work with their peers on the Internet, nor derive it for research or a publication. Confusion causes doubt, and when in doubt, people decide to use your material at all, but seek out resources that are more clearly open. To illustrate, consider the following examples.
Example 1: A graduate student of Theology and comes across old photographs of certain spiritual figures. She decides to make a collage out of these photographs and republish them in a study. This study is picked up by a publisher who wants to sell copies to colleges and universities. Is this still “educational” use?
Yes: Its main aim is to spread the knowledge that the Theology student gained and reinterpreted in a set form.
No: Selling copies, even to colleges and universities, is a commercial enterprise. Its main aim is to make a profit, not to educate. Use should be restricted to non-commercial activities only.
Example 2:  A High School teacher shares a lesson plan online, specifying that its use for “educational purposes” only. A band decides to take the lesson plan and convert it into a song, reposting their performance on YouTube. Is this educational use?
Yes: The rock’s band rendition of the lesson plan is edifying, and an interesting twist to a conventional teaching method.
No: The rock band’s use of the material is for entertainment purposes. At worst, they are making fun of education.
Example 3: A filmmaker makes a video about the constitution. He posts it on his site, stating that it should only be played publicly in “educational settings”; otherwise, he requires payment for its broadcast. A nonprofit researching the Constitution decides to broadcast it at a conference to show people the different kinds of media being made about the Constitution. Is this an “educational setting”?
Yes: The purpose of showing the film is to edify its audience; therefore, the setting is educational.
No: By “educational setting”, the filmmaker obviously meant the classroom or some other formal institutional setting.
As you can see from the above examples, there are many ways to construe the term “educational”. Therefore, making your own custom license, and specifying terms like “educational”, only complicates existing copyright. Especially since “all rights reserved” (ARR) copyright already provides exceptions for certain educational uses. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act (the “Act”) defines fair use, and Sections 108-122 include the bulk of the other exceptions and limitations on the reach of copyright protection in the US. Some of these exceptions pertain to certain educational uses, but even here there is no black and white answer as to what is or is not educational, since the term is not defined in that Act. But because fair use exceptions already address educational use, adding the term yourself is unnecessary, not to mention confusing.  In brief, the lack of clarity is evident with the term “educational”. Without one universal definition on which everyone agrees—a consensus that is unlikely to be reached in this internet age of learners and thinkers—additional terms such as “educational” only serve to confuse and not to clarify.

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What is wrong with customized licenses?

2009-07-09T19:30:12Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=What is wrong with customized licenses?
|Document=Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Increase Funding Impact
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, custom licenses
|Answer=Nothing is inherently wrong with licensing your works how you wish. However, if you are interested in creating Open Educational Resources and making them available to a broad global audience, then it is likely that having a custom license will actually undermine your goals. Your custom license will likely include terms that do not align with terms used in standard licenses, such as CC licenses. For example, if you were to make your works available for "educational use" it would not necessarily be clear, without further definition, what you mean by that term. Further, even if you clarify and define certain terms like “educational”, having this restriction means that your resources may not be used with any of the many wonderful resources available under Creative Commons licenses, or other custom licenses for that matter. When licenses are incompatible, the result is a group of educational resources that cannot work together because each licensor has defined differently what is permitted and isn’t permitted. The result is that the most anyone can do with your work is access and cite it, which is pretty much what people can generally do anyway under standard all-rights-reserved copyright. So then you’ve just spent a whole lot of time and trouble writing up terms that effectively function like regular copyright. The resources are there, and they are accessible, but little else can be done with them to produce meaningful collaborative work. So, if you are going to put in the effort to change the default rules for your works, why not make them more user-friendly, rather than less? Using a standardized public license will accomplish this.
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What is wrong with customized licenses?

2009-07-09T19:28:51Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=What is wrong with customized licenses?
|Document=Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Increase Funding Impact
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, custom licenses
|Answer=Nothing is inherently wrong with licensing your works how you wish. However, if you are interested in creating Open Educational Resources and making them available to a broad global audience, then it is likely that having a custom license will actually undermine your goals. Your custom license will likely include terms that do not align with terms used in standard licenses, such as CC licenses. For example, if you were to make your works available for "educational use" it would not necessarily be clear, without further definition, what you mean by that term. Further, even if you clarify and define certain terms like “educational”, having this restriction means that your resources may not be used with any of the many wonderful resources available under Creative Commons licenses, or other custom licenses for that matter. When definitions do not align, the result is a group of educational resources all licensed under different customized licenses that cannot work together because each licensor has defined differently what is permitted and isn’t permitted. The result is that the most anyone can do with your work is access and cite it, which is pretty much what people can generally do anyway under standard all-rights-reserved copyright. So then you’ve just spent a whole lot of time and trouble writing up terms that effectively function like regular copyright. The resources are there, and they are accessible, but little else can be done with them to produce meaningful collaborative work. So, if you are going to put in the effort to change the default rules for your works, why not make them more user-friendly, rather than less? Using a standardized public license will accomplish this.
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What if I want to add some conditions and I clarify what I mean by a specific term? Is there anything wrong with adding conditions on top of a CC license?

2009-07-09T17:39:00Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=What if I want to add some conditions and I clarify what I mean by a specific term? Is there anything wrong with adding conditions on top of a CC license? 
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, CC licenses, terms of use
|Answer=CC licenses do not support additional conditions. You are free to license your works in any way you wish, but once you have added additional conditions, your work is no longer under one of the standard CC licenses, but is rather subject your own customized license. When this happens, your work is no longer mixable with other CC licensed works, thereby preventing remixing in future derivations and adaptations of your material – likely defeating your reasons for openly licensing the work in the first place.
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What are Terms of Use?

2009-07-09T16:34:53Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=What are Terms of Use? 
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing, Increase Funding Impact
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, terms of use
|Answer=Terms of Use (also known as Terms of Service or Terms and Conditions) are the collection of rules that apply to the use of any given website. The purpose of the TOU is to let your users know what they can and cannot do on the site. Usually TOU contain information for users about what they may do with copyrighted site content. Sometimes, information regarding these rights is contained in a separate copyright or IP (intellectual property) policy. As used in this FAQ, however, we use TOU to include any central location on a website where copyright information is provided. Since all work automatically falls under “all rights reserved” copyright from the moment it is created, users will (correctly) assume that this is the status for your resources unless otherwise expressly stated by the copyright holder and clarified by you. If you choose to openly license the content on your site, then a simple statement in the TOU or elsewhere on your site stating what license terms apply can prevent confusion or concern that could scare off your users.
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I don’t mind other people using and adapting my work, but I want the derivative works to always remain available for others to use as well, so I should apply the SA term, correct?

2009-07-09T00:03:49Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=I don’t mind other people using and adapting my work, but I want the derivative works to always remain available for others to use as well, so I should apply the SA term, correct?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=instructors, OER creators
|Tag=OER, derivatives, SA, Share Alike
|Answer=Correct. The Share Alike term requires that users who make derivatives of the originally licensed work to license the derivative work in the same way the original work was licensed to them. Therefore, to ensure your work remains available, use the Share Alike license in combination with other Creative Commons licenses to express just how free you would like that work to remain. Recall, though, that the Share Alike license only applies to derivatives, so uses that do not constitute derivatives are not required to be re-licensed as Share Alike.
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If the OER is licensed CC-BY-NC (or CC-BY-NC-SA), does that mean that it can only be used for educational purposes?

2009-07-09T00:00:19Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=If the OER is licensed CC-BY-NC (or CC-BY-NC-SA), does that mean that it can only be used for educational purposes?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Increase Funding Impact, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
|Target audience=learners
|Tag=OER, noncommercial
|Answer=No. Creative Commons does not offer any “educational use only” license terms. A user of content licensed under any of the CC terms must simply comply with those terms. For those above, the terms are: give credit to the author (BY), use for only noncommercial purposes (NC), (and, if marked SA (Share Alike), re-license any derivatives in the same manner as the original). That said, in the interest of maximizing interoperability, ccLearn recommends that, wherever possible, OER should be released under the most permissive license possible: CC-BY. We view this as the CC license most suited to the purposes of the OER movement.
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If the OER is licensed CC-BY-NC (or CC-BY-NC-SA), does that mean that it can only be used for educational purposes?

2009-07-08T23:59:41Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=If the OER is licensed CC-BY-NC (or CC-BY-NC-SA), does that mean that it can only be used for educational purposes?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Increase Funding Impact, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
|Target audience=learners
|Tag=OER, noncommercial
|Answer=No. Creative Commons does not offer any “educational use only” license terms. A user of content licensed under any of the CC terms must simply comply with those terms. For those above, the terms are: give credit to the author (BY), use for only noncommercial purposes (NC), (and, if marked SA (Share Alike), re-license any derivatives in the same manner as the original).

That said, in the interest of maximizing interoperability, ccLearn recommends that, wherever possible, OER should be released under the most permissive license possible: CC-BY. We view this as the CC license most suited to the purposes of the OER movement.
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Since all-rights-reserved copyright is the normal default, why do I need to indicate if something is still copyrighted in this manner?

2009-06-26T23:28:55Z

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Do we need parental permission for children to post things on the internet?

2009-06-26T22:53:41Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=Do we need parental permission for children to post things on the internet?
|Answer=There is no one answer to this question, and it depends on your situation. If you are a teacher, it is possible that your school has a policy about this, in which case you should follow it. If not, then it is a good idea to talk to parents about this issue and to develop a solution that works for your situation.
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=administrators
|Tag=OER, minors
|theanswer=There is no one answer to this question, and it depends on your situation. If you are a teacher, it is possible that your school has a policy about this, in which case you should follow it. If not, then it is a good idea to talk to parents about this issue and to develop a solution that works for your situation.
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Do we need parental permission for children to post things on the internet?

2009-06-26T22:52:39Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=Do we need parental permission for children to post things on the internet?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=administrators
|Tag=OER, minors
|theanswer=There is no one answer to this question, and it depends on your situation. If you are a teacher, it is possible that your school has a policy about this, in which case you should follow it. If not, then it is a good idea to talk to parents about this issue and to develop a solution that works for your situation.
}}
There is no one answer to this question, and it depends on your situation. If you are a teacher, it is possible that your school has a policy about this, in which case you should follow it. If not, then it is a good idea to talk to parents about this issue and to develop a solution that works for your situation.

How do I properly incorporate CC licenses for the resources on my site?

2009-06-26T22:21:01Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=How do I properly incorporate CC licenses for the resources on my site? 
|Answer=When you choose a license, CC provides you with html code that you can associate either with the object or that you can paste into your website frame.

For detailed instructions, see [http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cclearn-recommendations-publishing-your-oer-on-the-internet-05-apr-09.pdf this guide] and [http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cclearn-step-by-step-applying-cc-licenses-06-apr-09.pdf this guide].
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, CC licenses
}}

How do I properly incorporate CC licenses for the resources on my site?

2009-06-26T22:19:19Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=How do I properly incorporate CC licenses for the resources on my site? 
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, CC licenses
}}
When you choose a license, CC provides you with html code that you can associate either with the object or that you can paste into your website frame.

For detailed instructions, see [http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cclearn-recommendations-publishing-your-oer-on-the-internet-05-apr-09.pdf this guide] and [http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cclearn-step-by-step-applying-cc-licenses-06-apr-09.pdf this guide].

Do we need parental permission for children to post things on the internet?

2009-06-26T22:05:13Z

Lila:

How do I license everything on my site that I produce under the same license?

2009-06-26T22:02:04Z

Lila:

Is most of the content on your site, including any resources and accompanying explanatory text, under the same CC license? If so, you should definitely make this clear to the user. You can do this by clearly displaying the CC license icon on every page, especially the home page. Ideally, you should embed the licensing code into the template itself (the “chrome”) which already surrounds every page so that you need encode it only once. If you select your license at http://creativecommons.org/license/, this code will be provided for you. We also recommend using text such as "Unless otherwise noted, everything on this site is licensed CC BY." If you include content that is licensed differently, then you should clearly label it as such.
{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=How do I license everything on my site that I produce under the same license?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, site license
}}

How do I license everything on my site that I produce under the same license?

2009-06-26T22:01:18Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=How do I license everything on my site that I produce under the same license?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, site license
}}
Is most of the content on your site, including any resources and accompanying explanatory text, under the same CC license? If so, you should definitely make this clear to the user. You can do this by clearly displaying the CC license icon on every page, especially the home page. Ideally, you should embed the licensing code into the template itself (the “chrome”) which already surrounds every page so that you need encode it only once. If you select your license at http://creativecommons.org/license/, this code will be provided for you. We also recommend using text such as "Unless otherwise noted, everything on this site is licensed CC BY." If you include content that is licensed differently, then you should clearly label it as such.

How do I license everything on my site that I produce under the same license?

2009-06-26T22:00:36Z

Lila:

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=How do I license everything on my site that I produce under the same license?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
|Tag=OER, site license
}}
Is most of the content on your site, including any resources and accompanying explanatory text, under the same CC license? If so, you should definitely make this clear to the user. You can do this by clearly displaying the CC license icon on every page, especially the home page. Ideally, you should embed the licensing code into the template itself (the “chrome”) which already surrounds every page so that you need encode it only once. If you select your license at http://creativecommons.org/license/, this code will be provided for you. We also recommend using text such as "Unless otherwise noted, everything on this site is licensed CC BY." If you do include content that is licensed differently, then you should clearly label it as such.

If I legally post online materials created by a minor, would I be liable if someone else misuses that material?

2009-06-26T21:25:37Z

Lila: moved Aren’t we liable if we post minor-created materials on the WWW and someone mis-uses them? to If I legally post online materials created by a minor, would I be liable if someone else misuses that material?

{{CcLearn FAQ
|Question=If I legally post online materials created by a minor, would I be liable if someone else misuses that material?
|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet
|Target audience=administrators
|Tag=OER, liability, minors
}}
You are not liable for someone else's misuse of minor-created material. However, you should take care when putting a minor's works online. Please see our FAQ on [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/How_can_we_reward_children_for_doing_good_work_(by_posting_their_work_online)_while_still_protecting_their_identities%3F protecting minors' identities online].

Aren’t we liable if we post minor-created materials on the WWW and someone mis-uses them?

2009-06-26T21:25:37Z

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If I legally post online materials created by a minor, would I be liable if someone else misuses that material?

2009-06-26T21:24:56Z

Lila: