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Copyrighted material
• Open Content is not “Free” for your use, it is “Pre-licensed” for your use.
• Copyright holders are not giving up their intellectual property rights; they are exercising them by clarifying who can use their materials and under what conditions
The Public Domain
• No Known Copyright Restrictions
• Expired Copyright
• Works of the U.S. Government
• http://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/
Fair Use and the TEACH Act
• Fair Use (four factors)• The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use
is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes• The nature of the copyrighted work• The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to
the copyrighted work as a whole• The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of,
the copyrighted work
• Fair Use in regards to Distance Education: TEACH Act• http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyright/teachact/index.cf
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Open Licensing Options
GNU Software Licenses and Copyleft • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#
OtherLicenses
Creative Commons
• Attribution - BY
• Share Alike – SA
• Non-Commercial – NC
• No Derivative Works – ND
• http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
Where can I find Open Content?
Audio (music) http://ccmixter.org/
Courses:http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/http://www.ocwsearch.com/api/search
Textbooks:http://collegeopentextbooks.org/mathbooks.htmlhttp://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://www.flatworldknowledge.com/cataloghttp://www.studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/catalog
Journal Articles:http://oro.open.ac.uk/cgi/search/advanced
More places to look…
Images:
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en
Everything:
• http://www.folksemantic.com/
• http://search.creativecommons.org/
Attribution & Use
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FFAQ#How_do_I_properly_attribute_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work.3F
Images:
• BY-NC-SA by matthileo
• BY-NC-SA by sam.d
• BY-NC-SA by MonkeyEggplant
