5. Copyright Part II: Using Others’ Original Works Legally (Creative Commons, Fa
5. Copyright Part II: Using Others’ Original Works Legally (Creative Commons, Fair Use, and Permission) | Presentation
Anita R. Walz
Authors have multiple options when incorporating others’ works (images, quotes, tables, etc.) into their own works. When doing so with openly-licensed works it is important to consider that downstream uses may adapt your work, and that it is a good practice to make that as straightforward as possible. This is primarily so that others have the flexibility to use them in ways that meet their needs and are not obligated to remove in-copyright elements because they lack permission or would be required to think through a fair-use analysis in order to reproduce them.
Learning Objectives
Learners should be able to:
- Summarize why using Creative Commons licenses and CC-licensed works overcome many copyright-related challenges.
- Locate and interpret the terms-of-use for example items.
- Reflect on copyright-related issues related to being an author or maker and describe practices for sharing your original work so that others are able to use it.
- Identify different formats/displays of Creative Commons licenses on works found on the web or items in the wild.
- List five allowable cases in which something can be incorporated into one’s OER.
- Demonstrate ability to identify what clearly can be used, and what is still murky or at the edges of one’s knowledge.
- Identify your questions. What else do you need to know?
- Articulate that marking and citing public domain, fair use, used-with-permission/released under an open license, and attributing CC-licensed works is important, even if one does not yet have this skill.
Assignment
- Read through the transcript/teaching script for Part I (the previous section) and Part II (this section).
- Document any questions. What is unclear or confusing? What external expertise do you feel you still need?
- Reflect on what in the presentation is helpful. How could you shape it to make it more helpful?
- In two or fewer pages, reflect on what you would need to do to be able to be able to deliver some or all of this presentation.
In Service of Others: Honoring Others’ Copyrights — and Making Your Work Useful to others (Part II)
Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EMGSXUamqwRmK4iQTfLn7W0f73wH07oBVvN9i-tBbJU/edit?usp=sharing
PowerPoint Slides: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112264
Slide Deck Transcript
If you own a bicycle, it’s pretty clear that you have rights to lend it out, sell it, keep it, paint it, take it on a world tour, and ride it wherever you are authorized to do so. And the same with materials in the Public Domain[1] (works that were created by a U.S. Government employee, or published in the U.S. as of a 1920ish date). Note that works in the U.S. are continually entering the Public Domain—see Copyright Term and the Public Domain from Cornell University for authoritative information. But what about when someone else owns the bicycle [the middle bucket on the slide]? W