The document provides guidance on managing e-learning resources, including creating, commissioning, and sharing digital content while respecting copyright. It discusses copyright basics, obtaining permission to use content, creative commons licensing, commissioning others to create content, and sharing standards. A five step process is outlined for identifying content, determining rights, obtaining authorization, defining licensing terms, and selecting distribution channels. Risk management strategies are also covered.

1. Managing e-learning resources. Creating, commissioning, and sharing digital content Neil Ballantyne & Ian Watson IRISS © Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 6 March 2009

11. Sample request for permission SUBJ: Request for permission to use copyright material I believe that your organisation holds the copyright for the undernoted reports. I would like to request your permission to add these report(s) to the Learning Exchange, a digital repository of materials relevant to social services education, training and practice which is managed by the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services, a non profit registered charity. We are seeking a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual world-wide licence to incorporate the Materials into the Learning Exchange. Access to the Learning Exchange is freely available on the web www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx (more information at www.iriss.ac.uk/learnx ). Material held in the Learning Exchange may be used only for non-commercial, educational purposes. You shall at any time be entitled to request that the Institute removes these materials from the Learning Exchange. I would be grateful if you could confirm that your organisation is the rights holder and that you are authorised to grant the permission sought. If your organization is not the copyright holder perhaps you could refer me to copyright holder.

12. E xclusive / non-exclusive An exclusive licence means only the licensee may use the work. Non-exclusive means the licensor may licence the work to many licensees. Royalty-free There is no recurring charge for the use of the materials. Perpetual There is no time limit attached to the licence. Some licenses may expire after after a specified time. W orld-wide territorial rights Some licences may exclude, say, USA and Canada. This is not much use for web based content, which has a global audience. Non-commercial use The work may not be used primarily for commercial advantage or payment. Educational use Reinforces the non-commercial condition.

16. Sample Scottish Deed NSLWG 26 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/scotland

17. Using a CC Licence Go to http://creativecommons.org/license /

18. Finding Creative Commons licensed content http://search.creativecommons.org/

19. IRISS content Creative Commons licensed http://www.iriss.ac.uk/IRISSlearning Still images http://www.flickr.com/photos/openlx Video http://www.vimeo.com/iriss

23. Finding the line between copying and building on existing work Robert Louis Stevenson – The art of writing http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/rlstevenson/bl-rlst-wri-5.htm Photo © Richard Roche http://tinyurl.com/buemyk CC-BY-NC … stolen waters are proverbially sweet… No doubt the parrot once belonged to Robinson Crusoe. No doubt the skeleton is conveyed from Poe. I think little of these, they are trifles and details; and no man can hope to have a monopoly of skeletons or make a corner in talking birds. The stockade, I am told, is from MASTERMAN READY. It may be, I care not a jot. These useful writers had fulfilled the poet's saying: departing, they had left behind them Footprints on the sands of time…

25. Risk Register Risk assessment Comment Details Content © Bridgeman Art Gallery

26. Risk Register Risk assessment Comment Details Content © Bridgeman Art Gallery

27. Risk Register You can use these photos (187754, 137529, 193531, 187727, 159419, 23783) for free your IRISS (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services), provided the use is in strict accordance with UN Photo Usage Guidelines: http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/guidelines.html and each photo is properly credited © United Nations © United Nations

28. Example 2 http://www.iriss.ac.uk/vsatraining

38. Links Copyright summary Intellectual Property Office http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htm Out-Law.com. Copyright law: the basics http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=5633 Keeping up to date on copyright RSS feed from Out-Law.com http://www.out-law.com/feeds/out-law_copyright.aspx Crown Copyright Click-use licence http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/index.htm Blogging policies Out-Law www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=7839 Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/communities/guidelines.jsp IBM http://www.snellspace.com/IBM_Blogging_Policy_and_Guidelines.pdf UK Web focus http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/blog-policies/ Bloggin4business www.blogging4business.info/B4B/1211 Books Copyright compliance. Practical steps to stay within the law. Paul Pedley. ISBN: 978-1-85604-640-4 Facet Publishing, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/bq6alo Digital Copyright, Second Edition. Paul Pedley. ISBN: 978-1-85604-608-4. Facet Publishing, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/dy4lxr Managing digital rights, Paul Pedley. ISBN: 978-1-85604-544-5, Facet Publishing, 2005. http://tinyurl.com/dzoudx