Creative Commons for Schools - Wellington Loop Conference

Our goal:“To realise the potential of the

internet.”

Our goal:“Universal access to research

and education, full participation in culture.”

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1. Free Licences

2. Projects

Schools: Creative Commons Policies

First point:The potential of digitial

technologies and the internet to share, collaborate and reuse works.

Second point: It hasn't always been easy to build on other works ('read-only')

Family watching television, c. 1958. National Archives and Records Administration. 1944 – 2006. No known copyright.

Third point:The technical barriers to access and reuse are dropping ('read-write')

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.

Fourth point:This is changing the production and consumption of culture

“83% of young people that we surveyed said they have used a computer to create their own art in the past 12 months.”

Creative New Zealand

22% of the general population said they have used a computer to create their own art in the past 12 months.

Creative New Zealand

“Digital art has emerged as the artform that young people most want to be more involved with.”

Creative New Zealand

Fifth point:Obvious potential to share a massive amount of educational resources for reuse

50,000+ teachers2,500+ schools

Enormous potential to save time, money & frustration.

50,000+ teachers2,500+ schools

Enormous potential to share & collaborate.

Sixth point:The legal barriers to

dissemination & reuse remain.

Copyright is very restrictive. Automatic.Applies online.No 'c' required.Lasts for 50 years after death.

This means you legally need an exception or permission.

Exception = Fair Dealing (v limited)

Permission = 1. Collecting society licences (limited)

2. Creative Commons (open)3. Out-of-copyright (v open)4. Other forms of permission

Seventh point:This produces a disconnect

between the law and (positive) engagement with online culture and knowledge.

Eighth point:Teachers don’t own copyright to resources they produce in the course of their employment.

Ninth point:Most schools don't have clear IP policies on sharing & reuse.

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 83-G-41445, via Flickr. No known copyright.

Here's the pitch:Creative Commons licences are clear, simple, free, legally robust and used by government.

Here's the pitch:CC shifts the conversation from what students can’t do to what they can

Here's the pitch:CC policies clarify IP at schools, while enabling sharing and collaboration.

Four Licence Elements

Attribution

Non Commercial

No Derivatives

Share Alike

Six Licences

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Layers

Licence symboll

Human readable

Lawyer readable

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CC Kiwi by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand

Licence.

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.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cIWmV5nCF8o97Nrb8wYZWfQ97FG-4ylNuXezh2nlBBM/edit

CC licences are being used across the state sector

NZGOAL (2010)Government guidance, approved by

Cabinet, advocates use of CC for publicly funded copyright works

Declaration on Open and Transparent Government (2011)

BoTs are “invited” to take NZGOAL into account when releasing copyright

material

CC PolicyAll teaching materials:

1. No need to ask permission

2. Keep resources when you leave

3. Teachers receive credit when their work is reused

“When I look outside at other schools, I think, why aren’t you doing this?”

Nathan Parker, Warrington School

“Teachers are collaborating more, and they’re also involving their students in the development of those teaching and

learning resources.”

Mark Osborne, ASHS

www.creativecommons.org.nz@cc_Aotearoa

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QUESTIONS?

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