Scenario 6.

Introduction to licensing (2)

This work, excluding institutional logos, is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

The following resource was created for academic teaching staff within UK higher educational institutions as a part of
the Intellectual Property Rights For Educational Environments (IPR4EE) project of the University College Falmouth.
The IPR4EE project is funded by HEFCE and is part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER Phase II programme.

I work for the Academic Skills Unit in our institution and I am developing some resources to support
students’ academic writing. I know that there is already much good material already available and
would like my course to both draw on, and contribute to, this freely available material.

a) Under what conditions can I use this material

b) How do I protect the ownership of anything that I create on behalf of my institution?

How would you advise this colleague?

Key Questions

 How might you go about finding available resources?

 What type of licences might you be searching for to repurpose the resources?
 To what extent might you be limited by ‘non-commercial’ or ‘non-derivative’ Creative
Commons licences?
 What does your institution’s IPR policy allow you do in terms of sharing work that you
produce?
 Do you need to seek clearance for anything that you produce or use?

Guidance material
1. See the factsheet P-27 Using the work of others from the UK Copyright Service for guidance
on what work may be available for you to use.
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p27_work_of_others

See particularly:
Paragraph 4 - the type of work you may easily access
 Paragraph 5 – Fair Dealing – the way in which you may use information without infringing
copyright
Paragraph 7 – Duration of copyright for a range of published sources and media.

2. Sharing Creative Works – an Illustrated Primer

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sharing_Creative_Works_23

3. Information about the different creative commons licenses, what they permit and how to
apply them to your work.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

4. A list of things to think about before applying a creative commons license to your work
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing

5. You can both find and share free online learning development resources from websites such
as:
LearnHigher – Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk
Intute Virtual Training Suite http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/education
Jorum – www.jorum.ac.uk