Copyright for Educators, Cycle 2 - Mar 2010

Sorry about my schedule last week. I should be able to pitch in more for this week's assignment.

Wiki link http://archive.p2pu.org/Copyright-for-Educators-Pink-Group-Wiki-Space

Here is our assignment for this week. It looks liek Zanele Dube has moved from teaching high school (in the United States for the purposes of our group) to teachning at a university.

Scenario 5
Professor Zanele Dube is employed at the University of Cape Town and has written a fantastic introductory text on integrated weather prediction, a new field, which is evolving very fast. She stores her notes in a Word document, which she prints out for her students at the beginning of the semester. She reviews and updates the text each semester. She is interested in making it available digitally, to save the printing costs, and to allow her students to leave comments directly online, but is worried that others might take it and use in ways that she is not comfortable with. She is happy for other to use and modify her text but she does not want others to get rich from her work. And of course, she feels that she should always be attributed.
She wishes to share the following materials with her colleague Professor Maria Masaba who is based in the United Kingdom.

Selected student research and assignments
an electronic copy of an article written by her and published in an all rights reserved journal that her university library has made available in the university intranet under a license from the publisher,
Translation of the above translated by Professor Dube

Questions (to be answered by each group)

Are any of the Creative Commons licenses appropriate for her to use in the introductory text on integrated weather prediction? (Answer for your own jurisdiction)
Do you know of any other licences that she may use?
What permission, if any, does she requireto be able to share the materials with Professor Masaba?
Does it make a difference her colleague is based in the UK?
Questions to assist your understanding (not to be answered in the assignment answers)

How can I apply an open licence to a resource?
What should I think about when I choose a licence?
Who "owns" the copyright instudent's work?
Does my institution own my work?
Why are open licences useful where you wish to collaborate and share material?
Should I include material under copyright exceptions in my open licensed work?