Given to Wintec in Hamilton, New Zealand on 5 February 2014, this presentation provides a simple introduction to Creative Commons licensing. It also introduces moves towards open access to scholarly research and open educational resources in New Zealand and around the world.
This presentation was accompanied by a broad discussion about how CC licensing could be used at New Zealand tertiary institutions.
13. Screenshot from ‘Lego Life Lessons - Safety Tips for Walking to
School’ by the Manning Brothers. Made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
licence.
15. Getty Museum
Closed:121 Purchases p/m
Open: 60,000 downloads p/m
Claude-Joseph Vernet
(French, 1714 - 1789)
A Calm at a
Mediterranean Port,
1770, The J. Paul
Getty Museum, Los
Angeles
16. Fifth point:
Taxpayers fund a great deal of
New Zealand copyright works
(many of which quickly fall
from circulation).
20. Copyright is:
Bundle of rights
Automatic
Copy, distribute, perform, adapt
*applies online*
Lasts for 50 years after death
21. Copyright the opportunities and
problems of print culture
“Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster,” by Daniel Maclise, 1851.
22. Heald, Paul J., How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear (and How Secondary Liability Rules
Help Resurrect Old Songs) (July 5, 2013). Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper
No. LBSS14-07; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-54. Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2290181 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2290181
23. What to do?
“Grayson, Westley, Stanislaus County, Western San Joaquin Valley, California. Seventh and
eighth grade class in Westley school after lesson in Geography” 1940, US National Archives 83G-41445, via Flickr. No known copyright.
43. CC Kiwi by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand is made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand
Licence.
44. The Remix Kiwi by CCANZ is based on a work by Creative Commons
Aotearoa New Zealand [LINK], which is made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
47. More than 700
million works.
“2500 Creative Commons Licences” by qthomasbower, via Flickr. Made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 licence.
57. “I am an independent
researcher from a third
world country not affiliated
to any university or a
company. Thus I neither
have access to paid journals
nor I can afford them”
– independent research,
Nepal.
Source: MIT Library
58. “I don’t have access to many
articles due to … sanctions.
… I really appreciate this
policy of MIT that helped me
a lot.”
– Researcher, Middle East
Source: MIT Library
59. “I am an independent
researcher, with no current
academic affiliation. I am
writing a book which
involves researching
topological quantum neural
computing.... Thank you for
making science freely
available to all!” – Scientific
journalist, US
Source: MIT Library
60. 2. Libraries are struggling.
From 1986-2007,
subscription charges
increased by 340%, four
times the rate of inflation
61. “We write to communicate an
untenable situation facing
the Harvard Library. Many
large journal publishers
have made the scholarly
communication environment
fiscally unsustainable and
academically restrictive.”
64. All Rights Reserved copyright
What many common
restrictsis Copyright? &
essential uses of research
65. Distribution to students, colleagues,
journalists, businesses.
Reuse by other researchers,
What is Copyright?
bloggers, journalists, publishers.
Republication to new audiences
Translation to other languages
66. Also, without open licensing, your
(publicly funded) work may not enter the
commons for over 100 years (...)
67. …which makes life very hard for
libraries and archives who want to give
your work a second life.
Exhibit A:
90. 3. We can't build enough
universities to meet global
demand
91. “Accommodating the additional
98 million students would
require more than four major
universities (30,000 students) to
open every week for the next
fifteen years.”
Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić of
UNESCO
Source: Brandenburg, U., Carr, D., Donauer, S., Berthold, C.
(2008) Analysing the Future Market – Target Countries for
German HEIs, Working paper No. 107, CHE Centre for Higher
Education Development, Gütersloh, Germany, p. 13.
