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Legal aspects - practical resources and guides

The OER IPR Support Project produced a range of excellent practical resources for UKOER projects

• Films and animations including:
• Animation on Open Data Licensing
• Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource
• Range of diagnostic tools including:
  
• Risk calculator - Important output which helps institutions identify risks associated with releasing OER. Most used tool - 300-400 visitors per week and very interestingly - CROSS SECTOR use of it
• CC compatibility wizard
• How open are you?  wizard to help institutions assess how open their strategies, policies and practice are.
• Packs charts and wizards
• Template licences, model releases, policies and forms
• Practical tools
• Background Information

• Hargreaves Distilled and the potential impact for Education and Research - blog post highlighting 10 things projects need to know as a result of these recommendations being implemented.

UKOER Projects also produced a wide range of practical materials of value to the wider community.

General legal guidance materials

• 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)
• OOER MEDEV toolkits: including: Patient and non-patient consent; IPR/copyright; Institutional policy; Internationalisation; Pedagogy/QA; Resource discovery;Resource upload (OOER and MEDEV Projects)
• Presentation: Intellectual Property Rights and Licences (Jason Miles-Campbell, JISC) (ORBEE Project)
• Video: IPR & ORBEE (Jason Miles-Campbell, JISC) (ORBEE Project)
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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)
• GEES Teaching Resources to help with Copyright Clearance in C-change:  GEES Teaching resources (GEES Project)
• Copyright video (RIPPLE Project) 
• Creative Commons Overview video  (RIPPLE Project)
• Contribution to Share and share alike (ACTOR workshop) (PORSHE Project)
• Contribution to IPR and copyright session at JISC conference (PORSHE Project)
• Share and share alike! 2 (PORSHE Project)
• Digital Professionalism and Consent Commons (PORSHE Project)
• Tiger Copyright Process (TIGER Project)
• Engage-event-copyright-and-licencing (Great Writers Inspire Project)
• Copyright (Great Writers Inspire 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)
• Notes on Visibility of Licensing in video uploading sites (C-SAP Collections Project) 
• UAL Commons Licence - This was modelled on earlier work in Canada in the province of British Columbia (https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26963) this licence was based on the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence with additional restrictions to restrict use to within the UAL. This was meant to address the issue of building trust between the staff from the six highly autonomous individual colleges that constitute the UAL to support inter-college sharing. This was also seen as an important first step in engaging staff with the idea of releasing their educational resources more openly. see Blog post on licensing (ALTO Project)

• Releasing-and-reusing-creative-commons-material (Great Writers Inspire Project)

• Creative-commons (Great Writers Inspire Project)

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Ownership

• Student as producer and student IPR (Chemistry FM project, University of Lincoln)

• Who-owns-scholarship (Great Writers Inspire Project)
• Open Educational Resource Contribution Terms pdf (SESAME Project)
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Third party content

• A handout on attributing third party content (OSTRICH Project)
  A hand-out on finding and using open third party content in learning materials (released as an OER) (OSTRICH Project)

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)