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"Contents Introduction Course Materials: * Module 1: Copyright and the Public Domain * Module 2: The International Framework * Module 3: The Scope of Copyright Law * Module 4: Rights, Exceptions, and Limitations * Module 5: Managing Rights * Module 6: Creative Approaches and Alternatives * Module 7: Enforcement * Module 8: Traditional Knowledge * Module 9: Activism * Glossary Contributors The Rotisserie * for students: Information about the Rotisserie Session * for instructors: How to prepare a Rotisserie session" "Objectives: Copyright for Librarians is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), a consortium of libraries from 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning: * copyright law in general * the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries * how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped. "

"At a time when we have the technologies to enable global access to and distributed processing of scientific research and data, legal and technical restrictions are making it difficult to connect the dots. Even when research and data is made public, it's often locked up by regimes or contracts that prohibit changing file formats or languages, integrating data, semantic enrichment, text mining and more. These restrictions sharply limit the impact of published research, and prevent us from exploiting the potential of the Web for accelerating scientific discovery. In the Scholar's Copyright Project, Science Commons develops tools and resources for expanding and enhancing open access (OA) to published research and data. We believe that knowledge-sharing systems and formats based on the paper metaphor block innovation, and that open access is prerequisite for finding new ways to reap the value of the vast amounts of public research now being produced. For details on the resources we offer, continue reading below."

"License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ . Screencast which demonstrates how to add a Creative Commons license to offline works created in September 2009 for the University of Cape Town. http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct"

"Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient Web-enabled scientific research - Primary Focus: o Making scientific research "re-useful" - We develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. As part of this work, we released an "open data" protocol to enable the global scientific community to pool and use data created under different legal regimes. o Enabling "one-click" access to research tools - We offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research. o Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language."

- Primary Focus: o Making scientific research "re-useful" - We develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. As part of this work, we released an "open data" protocol to enable the global scientific community to pool and use data created under different legal regimes. o Enabling "one-click" access to research tools - We offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research. o Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.

"Open Education Resources (OER) just got a big boost this weekend. Long time OER champion Dr. Catherine Casserly was just elected yesterday to the Board of Directors of Creative Commons to help provide further direction for the Open Education Resources movement worldwide. 2010-02-01-Casseerly4.jpg For those of you who never heard of OER, let me explain. In brief, OER is high quality learning materials that are freely available for use, remixing and redistribution; the name was first adopted by UNESCO in 2002. The push to further develop OER comes at a critical time when schools nationwide are seeking ways to improve learning. Creative Commons (CC) plays a major role in the OER movement as it provides the legal structure for sharing creative works and making them available for others to build upon and share. The CC organization has six licenses that allow creators to share their works easily."

The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a website. Distribution will also be possible via paper, CD, or DVD. ...The goal is to make textbooks available to the many who cannot afford them. ... The Global Text Project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation.

Check out the digital copyright slider. The tool itself is pretty simple. You basically slide the arrow up and down the years starting from "Before 1923″. The boxes on the left (Permission Needed? and Copyright Status/Term) tell you whether a work is still copyrighted or whether it's now in the public domain, free for you to use and repurpose any way you like. Unfortunately, actually figuring out the copyright status of a work isn't so simple as dragging your mouse-most of the years seem to be marked by a fuzzy period of "Maybe".

"Commoner Letters is a series of letters written by prominent members of the CC community and sent out during our annual fundraising campaign. These exceptional "commoners" write about their past and present projects that involve CC, what CC means to them, why they feel the commons is a vital public resource in our digital age, and where they think CC is headed in the future."

"Dice started its requirement analysis by collecting stories of issues and solutions about digital copyright management. To this purpose, the Fernfachhochschule Schweiz in Brig developed a short online survey."

"PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All our activities are guided by our core principles. Read more about our mission, our achievements, and our hopes for the future in PLoS' first annual Progress Report."

"Hartwig Thomas hat einen ausführlichen und persönlichen Bericht zur Tagung des Instituts für Geistiges Eigentum zur Zukunft des Urheberrechts geschrieben. Ein Ausschnitt aus der Zusammenfassung zur Einstimmung: Die vom Schweizer Forum für Kommunikationsrecht1 und vom Eidgenössischen Institut für Geistiges Eigentum am 2. März 2010 durchgeführte Fachtagung mit dem Titel „Zukunft des Urheberrechts - Interessenausgleich oder Paradigmenwechsel" brachte einige neue, bisher ungewohnte, Töne in die schweizerische Urheberrechtsdiskussion. Der zentrale neue Ton dürfte das offenkundige Bemühen aller Beteiligten gewesen sein, sich gegenseitig nicht (mehr) mit hoher Emotionalität der moralischen Verwerflichkeit zu beschimpfen, sondern einzuräumen, dass man über die heutige und zukünftige Regelung des Urheberrechts in guten Treuen verschiedene Meinungen haben kann, ohne deswegen gleich ein schlechter Mensch zu sein. Ein neuer Aspekt, der auch mithalf, den konfrontativen Ton zu vermeiden, war wohl die Tatsache, dass sich diesmal auch echte Urheber und Vermittler von Werken äussern durften, wäh- rend die sonst immer anwaltschaftlich für diese Interessengruppen auftretenden Verwertungs- gesellschaften für einmal nur im Publikum und nicht vorne Teil des Panels waren. Diese Mal bestand das Panel nicht mehrheitlich aus Juristen. Der ganze Bericht ist als PDF unter der CC-BY-NC-ND Lizenz verfügbar"

"Misrepresentation One of the greatest concerns for authors who create works of opinion and place them under alternative copyright licences is that the licence will allow their opinions or arguments to be misrepresented. The Creative Commons Attribution-No-Derivatives licence appears to protect against misrepresentation by ensuring that the author's original expression cannot be altered with the production of derivative works. But I would argue that ND cannot protect against mis-representation any better than using a copyleft licence such as Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike, and that copyleft licences are also better for freedom of speech." (integrate in CC chapter of handbook?)

"Les documents publiés dans le portail e-rara.ch sont accessibles gratuitement pour un usage privé, ou encore à des fins de recherche et d'enseignement. Toute exploitation commerciale est interdite. Des données ou des tirages isolés peuvent être diffusés, accompagnés des présentes conditions d'utilisation, et sous réserve de leur observation. Le stockage de ces documents sur un autre serveur est soumis à une autorisation écrite de la direction du projet e-rara.ch.\n\nCreative Commons License Les documents numériques sont publiés sous la licence Creative-Commons suivante:\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ch/deed.fr\n\nLe format d'affichage est généré à partir d'images de haute résolution (en principe 300 dpi) au format Tiff. Ces images (masters) sont gérées et archivées par les bibliothèques qui conservent les documents originaux. Leur achat et leur utilisation sont soumis aux règlements tarifaires des bibliothèques concernées. "

" Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #144 April 2, 2010 by Peter Suber Read this issue online http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-10.htm Contents o The winter coat factor: A small spring thought o A verb for the act providing open access o Correction o Roundup o Coming this month o Credits"

"Conditions d'utilisation Les documents publiés dans le portail e-rara.ch sont accessibles gratuitement pour un usage privé, ou encore à des fins de recherche et d'enseignement. Toute exploitation commerciale est interdite. Des données ou des tirages isolés peuvent être diffusés, accompagnés des présentes conditions d'utilisation, et sous réserve de leur observation. Le stockage de ces documents sur un autre serveur est soumis à une autorisation écrite de la direction du projet e-rara.ch. Creative Commons License Les documents numériques sont publiés sous la licence Creative-Commons suivante: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ch/deed.fr Le format d'affichage est généré à partir d'images de haute résolution (en principe 300 dpi) au format Tiff. Ces images (masters) sont gérées et archivées par les bibliothèques qui conservent les documents originaux. Leur achat et leur utilisation sont soumis aux règlements tarifaires des bibliothèques concernées. "

"Home | Collection | Further information | Links | Contact Universitätsbibliothek Bern DigiBern - Bernese Culture and History on the Web DigiBern is a web offer by the University Library of Berne and includes digitized texts and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Berne city and the canton of Berne. Digibern has been online since 2002. So far, the most widely spread and used printed texts have been digitized. The documents are fully searchable for keywords. They can be traced via the index on the DigiBern web site. Moreover, they are indexed and web linked in the online library catalog IDS Basel/Bern. Digibern is freely available worldwide to scholars and the public. "

"A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving. "

Attribute definitions alt = text [CS] For user agents that cannot display images, forms, or applets, this attribute specifies alternate text. The language of the alternate text is specified by the lang attribute. Several non-textual elements (IMG, AREA, APPLET, and INPUT) let authors specify alternate text to serve as content when the element cannot be rendered normally. Specifying alternate text assists users without graphic display terminals, users whose browsers don't support forms, visually impaired users, those who use speech synthesizers, those who have configured their graphical user agents not to display images, etc. The alt attribute must be specified for the IMG and AREA elements.

"This year at the 2009 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference we saw an increase in both international and corporate partner participation; standing ovations for two of our general session keynotes; an extremely active Twitter backchannel; fantastic presentations; participants engaging in new ways at the Thursday night event, such as Ignite!-inspired sessions and the Black Box Theatre improv; and numerous examples of you networking with your colleagues all throughout the conference space, making new contacts and connections for the coming year. Our full conference attendance boasted 3,700+, along with just under 2,400 exhibitor registrations. We also piloted our first annual online companion event, which ended up being a success thanks to great speakers and content, as well as valuable interaction with campuses across the world. ... Unless otherwise noted, EDUCAUSE holds the copyright on all materials published by the association, whether in print or electronic form. In certain cases the work remains the intellectual property of the individual author(s) (see Special Circumstances). Content from conference speeches, presentations, blogs, wikis and feeds reflect the opinions of the author, and not necessarily those of EDUCAUSE or its members. "