This page has now been updated to include projects from all three phases of the UKOER Programme and is incorporated into the UKOER Guides Legal Aspects page. Please go there for up to date information. Thanks

 

Legal issues

 

• OER Legal matters interview broadcast as JISCLegal Webcast (Open Exeter Project, University of Exeter)
• Identifying provenance of learning materials - guidelines for Academics  (Open Exeter Project, University of Exeter)
• Staff poll relating to Image use (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• IPR workshop survey responses (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• What is OER? licence and explanation of how people can use the OERs (brOME Project, Mark Van Hoorebeek, Bradford University)
• Student as producer and student IPR (Chemistry FM project, University of Lincoln)
• IPR and copyright when sharing educational resources, University of Southampton, 14 December, 2009. (Humbox Project)
• Copyright, Intellectual Property and Licensing: Institutional Report (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• Releasing Open Educational resources, including how to clear a resource for open release, dealing with 3rd party content, Creative Commons licensing and how to upload/download resources to Flickr, Scribd, Slideshare and YouTube (CORE-Materials Project)

 

Copyright

• Copyright tracking sheet (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Copyright guidence resources: links to a range of support materials available on the web (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Lessons learned by the Copyright Officer of the OTTER Project, University of Leicester
• Copyright at Oxford (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• U-Now Copyright Statement (BERLIN Project, University of Nottingham)
• Copyright in Online Resources: Content Authors (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• Copyright in Online Resources: Content Users (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• FAQs on Copyright - series of MP3 podcasts  Who owns copyright?  How long does copyright last?  Where would you inquire about copyright clearance?  What resources are covered by copyright?  Web pages and copyright    Movies and copyright  Music and copyright (OpenStaffs Project, Staffordshire University)
• Guide to Copyright (OpenStaffs Project, Staffordshire University)
• Summary of Copyright Quiz activities (OpenStaffs Project, Staffordshire University)

• OERs - Copyright, Intellectual Property and Licensing Guidance (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)

• OER Depositor Agreement (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)

• UAL Seeking Permission from publishers letter (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)

• UCA Digital Resources Release Form (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)

• IPR and Copyright when sharing Educational Resources Humbox/EdShare event (Humbox Project)
  

   

Licencing

• Open content terms of use in U-Now repository (BERLIN Project, University of Nottingham)
• Licencing and clearing issues Guidance for content contributors prepared by Head of IPR and University Lawyers (Open Exeter Project, University of Exeter)
• OpenSpires Creative Commons Introduction (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• Background to the OpenSpires Licence (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• What is OER? licence and explanation of how people can use the OERs (brOME Project, Mark Van Hoorebeek, Bradford University)

 

Takedown policies

• Takedown policy - U-now repository (BERLIN Project, University of Nottingham)
• Repository takedown policy - (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• UAL Take Down Policy (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• BROME take down policy  (BROME Project)