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In the US, Title 17 of the US Code governments governs the 'copy rights' assigned to the creator of an intellectual/creative work. Those rights can be owned, lent, shared, sold, and inherited. The copyright owner (not necessarily the creator) has the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to:
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Creative Commons is a licensing scheme for free(ish) content that is used both for content and for software. http://creativecommons.org/
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Creative Commons licenses have several options (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/).
- All Creative Commons licenses require that the user provides Attribution (BY)-- that is, identifies the copyright owner of the work. No plagiarism allowed!
- The No Derivatives (ND) option restricts other people from preparing things based on the work (derivatives)
- The NonCommercial (NC) option allows people to prepare derivative works using the work, but not to distribute them commercially.
- The ShareAlike (SA) provision allows users to create derivative works from the work, but those the derivatives must be released under the same Creative Commons license as the original.
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Finding Creative Commons Educational Resources
- Creative Commons itself links to some educational projects: http://creativecommons.org/education including MIT OpenCourseware.
- The Open Educational Resources' OER Commons also provides links to courseware: http://www.oercommons.org/
- as does Connexions http://cnx.org/ , an educational module repository hosted at Rice University.
The Basic Guide to OER, http://www.col.org/PublicationDocuments/Basic-Guide-To-OER.pdf, Prepared by Neil Butcher for the Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO, has these further suggestions:
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1. Use a specialized OER search engine: While search engines such as Google and Bing are a good general starting point for finding content online, there are also some specialized search engines that search specifically for OER. Their listings, however, are selective based on different search criteria so it is a good idea to try more than one. Here are a few of the popular ones:
2. Locate a suitable OER repository: Searchers should also access the major OER repositories to search for OER. Most are institutionally based, focusing on the materials released by that organization. A famous example is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Courseware Repository (MIT OCW). Some repositories, such as MedEd PORTAL, have a specific subject focus, in this instance, medical photos and multimedia. Below are a few of the more significant OER repositories (with many more described in Appendices Five and Six \ [~jheise:of the Basic Guide to OER\]):
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