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Hi all
So we've achieved the first significant milestone - the first case studies have all been handed in and marked. You'll see we seem to have seven groups left, and I've given each group its own page when uploading my comments - I'll explain this in my next post about handing in assignments.
Everyone passed, and I'm glad to see that people seemed to find most of the questions fairly straight forward and easy (that is, of course, the point of the Creative Commons system - to make these things easy).
The main questions people seemed to have trouble with were the ones about different country licences (ie jurisdiction) and the licence versions - which is as you would expect, as these are some of the harder points about the CC licences. And almost everyone had difficulty identifying the legal code.
I'd recommend everyone have a look at the Orange and Purplse groups' answers on different country licences - the Orange group has also pointed out that Wikipedia has a good explanation of the licence versions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons#Jurisdiction_ports. The basic answer is that you can use CC material under a specific country's licence (eg Australia) anywhere in the world - they are all designed to apply the same way everywhere, the different country licences just use language that works better for that country's legal system.
On the different licence versions, the Gold group and David Garrison (working on his own for this case study) have provided very good answers. As Mary has already pointed out, Creative Commons has a page on the different licence versions at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions. The basic answer is that, while small technical details may change from version to version as the licences are refined, the main licence elements (attribution, noncommercial etc) stay the same, so you can still use the material in basically the same way under different licence versions.
On the legal code - the detail most of you missed, and so we obviously need to explain better, is that the licence deed that you see when you click on the link to a CC licence ISN'T the full licence. It is just a summary of the licence. The full licence, which we call the legal code, is available via a link at the bottom of the licence deed page. It's important that you know that the legal code exists, because this is the actual licence that you are using the work under and sets out all the full legal details of what you can and can't do. If you have any questions, such as 'what is a derivative work' or 'what is noncommercial', the legal code is the first place to start.
So, for example, for the Australian Attributuon licence the relevant pages are:
Licence deed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
Legal code (ie licence): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/legalcode
Rights Granted:
Provided that the terms set out in this Licence are satisfied, the Licensor grants to You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) licence to exercise the following rights:
1. Reproduce the Work;
2. incorporate the Work into one or more Collections;
3. Reproduce the Work as incorporated in any Collection;
4. create and Reproduce one or more Derivative Works; and
5. Distribute and publicly perform the Work, a Derivative Work or the Work as incorporated in any Collection.
Your next Case Study is due in just under a fortnight on 21 February. This means you have the rest of this week and the week after to do the background reading and prepare your group answer. I'll be around to answer questions.
I also strongly recommend that as individuals you spend some of this time taking a look at the other groups' answers to this weeks case study, particularly the harder questions, and provide any comments you have in the comments area of their Case Study 1 page - it is this interaction between students that provides a lot of the richness in P2Pu.
Jessica
Case Study 1 - Marked
Hi all
So we've achieved the first significant milestone - the first case studies have all been handed in and marked. You'll see we seem to have seven groups left, and I've given each group its own page when uploading my comments - I'll explain this in my next post about handing in assignments.
Everyone passed, and I'm glad to see that people seemed to find most of the questions fairly straight forward and easy (that is, of course, the point of the Creative Commons system - to make these things easy).
The main questions people seemed to have trouble with were the ones about different country licences (ie jurisdiction) and the licence versions - which is as you would expect, as these are some of the harder points about the CC licences. And almost everyone had difficulty identifying the legal code.
I'd recommend everyone have a look at the Orange and Purplse groups' answers on different country licences - the Orange group has also pointed out that Wikipedia has a good explanation of the licence versions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons#Jurisdiction_ports. The basic answer is that you can use CC material under a specific country's licence (eg Australia) anywhere in the world - they are all designed to apply the same way everywhere, the different country licences just use language that works better for that country's legal system.
On the different licence versions, the Gold group and David Garrison (working on his own for this case study) have provided very good answers. As Mary has already pointed out, Creative Commons has a page on the different licence versions at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions. The basic answer is that, while small technical details may change from version to version as the licences are refined, the main licence elements (attribution, noncommercial etc) stay the same, so you can still use the material in basically the same way under different licence versions.
On the legal code - the detail most of you missed, and so we obviously need to explain better, is that the licence deed that you see when you click on the link to a CC licence ISN'T the full licence. It is just a summary of the licence. The full licence, which we call the legal code, is available via a link at the bottom of the licence deed page. It's important that you know that the legal code exists, because this is the actual licence that you are using the work under and sets out all the full legal details of what you can and can't do. If you have any questions, such as 'what is a derivative work' or 'what is noncommercial', the legal code is the first place to start.
So, for example, for the Australian Attributuon licence the relevant pages are:
Licence deed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
Legal code (ie licence): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/legalcode
Rights Granted:
Provided that the terms set out in this Licence are satisfied, the Licensor grants to You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) licence to exercise the following rights:
1. Reproduce the Work;
2. incorporate the Work into one or more Collections;
3. Reproduce the Work as incorporated in any Collection;
4. create and Reproduce one or more Derivative Works; and
5. Distribute and publicly perform the Work, a Derivative Work or the Work as incorporated in any Collection.
Your next Case Study is due in just under a fortnight on 21 February. This means you have the rest of this week and the week after to do the background reading and prepare your group answer. I'll be around to answer questions.
I also strongly recommend that as individuals you spend some of this time taking a look at the other groups' answers to this weeks case study, particularly the harder questions, and provide any comments you have in the comments area of their Case Study 1 page - it is this interaction between students that provides a lot of the richness in P2Pu.
Jessica