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Copyright 4 Educators (AUS)

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Delia Browne's picture
Thu, 2010-08-26 11:47

Expectations / Should I take this course?

This course requires between 8 to 12 hours per week in class-related work. This is a serious commitment - but it will be rewarding. It is a peer to peer learning experience. You won't learn anything if you don't share your understandings with others. For that reason all participants will be expected to share your answers to questions. You will retain copyright to your answers and can re-use themhow you want. P2PU plans to offer this course in future with a focus on specific jurisdictions where possible. We'd like to use student contributions so request that you re-licence them under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike licence, what those licences mean is something you will learn during the course.

How this course works

How is the course organised?

The course is focused on developing practical solutions. Each week, the group must submit a group answer to each of the case Scenarios. Each Week has a list of readings and resources that may assist you in answering the case scenario questions.   

Please note , the group answer will differ according to what country you are based and the domestic copyright legislation.The readings point to various resources from different jurisdictions; Australia, South Africa, the USA and other English speaking jurisdictions. It is important to remember that the detail of the law in each jurisdiction is different although the overall concepts are the same, since the different jurisdictions must all comply with the same international treaties.

The Group answer  should demonstrate your understanding of the assigned reading material and should include original thoughts and synthesis. Don't just summarize readings. Making connections between the week's readings and either previous readings or previous blogging (of your own or of other students!) is strongly encouraged. 

Only answer the questions in relation to the case study/scenario.  When completing the weekly assignments for this course you should try to answer as best you can for your jurisdiction. Identifying the resources available for your jurisdiction and pointing out the differences in your country’s copyright legislation are important parts of the learning in the course.

In addition, each group provides a short assessment of the other groups’ answers. 

How to get to started

By now you will have been allocated a group colour indicating the student you have been placed in.

We suggest a different student take responsibility for starting the weekly discussion and submitting the final answer and group assessment of the other groups's answer for each week.

Your group discussion space for each week has been set up in the Course Material section. This is where  you can start drafting your answers and provide comments/feedback on the working draft.

You may wish to allocate particular questions to different members to provide a first draft for review and comment.

How to post the final group answer

The allocated student leader for that week should be responsible for posting the final answer. Go to view on the dashbaord, and then scroll down to Assignments, click on Submitt an Assignment and upload the group answer.

General Readings

Copyright Legislation United States http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

Introducing Copyright A plain language guide to copyright in the 21st Century by Julien Hofman published by the Commwealth of Learning, Vancouver 2009. It can be accessed and/or downloaded from:

http://www.col.org/resources/publications/monographs/Pages/Copyright.aspx/

Week 1

Key words: Copyright, idea/expression, moral rights, public domain, term, jurisdiction, copyright ownership.

Reading and Resources

Australia

Selected links to Smartcopying Website

See also Information Sheet G066 Databases, compilations, table and forms available to view at www.copyright.org.au

Week 2 - Case Study

Key words: student use of copyright material, exceptions, limitations, fair use, fair dealing 

Readings and Resources

  • Chapters 5 Users’ Rights, Introducing Copyright A plain language guide to copyright in the 21st Century by Julien Hofman

Australia Education Use Exceptions

Week 3 - Case Study

Key words: teacher’s use of copyright materials, exceptions, licence, blanket licence, compulsory licences, contract, Digital Rights Management (DRM)and Technological Protection Measures (TPM), anti-circumvention of DRM/TPM

Readings and Resources

Australia Educational Use Exceptions

Week 4 - Case Study

Key words: open licence, Creative Commons, GNU GPL, Attribution, Share Alike, Non Commercial

Reading and Resources

Chapter 8 Open Licences, Introducing Copyright A plain language guide to copyright in the 21st Century by Julien Hofman

Week 5 - Case Study

Key words: licence strategy, licence compatibility, dual licensing, cross border issues

Readings and Resources:

 Australia

License Compatibility Matrix

Week 6 - Final Assignment

Key words: law reform, copyright issues in the classroom, creating helpful open educational resources on copyright issues in education.

Resources

  • See all previous weeks suggested readings and resources.   Set out below are some helpful education and law reform resources.

Educational tools about copyright for educators and students

 

Hi, I just enrolled but have

Nadia Merchant's picture
Nadia Merchant
Sun, 2010-09-19 09:02

Hi, I just enrolled but have just looked through the time commitment and won't be able to participate. Sorry to muck you around but I'm in my last semester of post grad. I would love to participate if you do this course next year however.

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