 OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for being here on a Friday afternoon. I really appreciate that. Today I'm going to talk about Creative Commons licenses, public domain and copyright. My name is Diana Vera-Elba. I am an OTAN subject matter expert. I'm also a faculty, ESL faculty and OER coordinator at San Diego College of Continuing Education in San Diego. So a little bit about myself. I am an online instructor and trainer. I've been doing this since 2012. I've taught in the modalities of distance ed, hybrid, high flex and online, fully online courses. I'm a trainer, online faculty mentor at my district as well as an OER and CAPE coordinator. I'm also a Canvas course design trainer, accessibility trainer, OER ZTC trainer and here also with OTAN as a subject matter expert. So in my free time I do enjoy gardening, photography and I love animals. So this is Gordy, one of my dogs. Before we get started I do want to find out how familiar you are with using OERs. So if you can please type in chat, type number one if you are not familiar with OERs, type number two if you are somewhat familiar with OERs and type number three if you are very familiar with OERs. So this will help me keep the pace of your interests so I can see where you are at right now in your learning. Okay, wonderful. So we have a lot of ones, we have some twos and 2.5s, that's great. So hopefully this will be beneficial for you, not super overwhelming. I will try to keep it as simple as possible because it is a very complex topic. So throughout the presentation I'll have lots of examples including videos and so let's go ahead and get started with that. And before we actually get started I do want to preface this presentation because we are going to talk about, I'm going to present on some legal topics. I am not an attorney and I cannot give you legal advice but I am Creative Commons certified so I have that linked out if you're interested in what that means. I'll tell you a little bit Creative Commons are a set of licenses, six Creative Commons licenses that designate materials as OER. So I am certified with Creative Commons and copyright public domain fair use and the licenses were part of my training but again I am not an attorney. All right so let's go ahead and continue so today the agenda topics we're going to look at are the characteristics of OERs. We're going to look at the five Rs that define an OER. We're going to look at the types of Creative Commons licenses. We're also going to look at the differences between OERs and open free resources. What is copyright, public domain versus open resources and then we're going to identify some OERs. We're going to look at the licenses and when you are doing your own search online one of the best places to look at if you don't see the license clearly on the homepage of the website is looking at the terms of use. Okay and I have a couple self-care time throughout the presentation and when we get there you'll see the screen. I'll stop and pause for a moment to see if you do want to take a break and if you want to power through we'll power through but I do have those two breaks available for you. Again this is an hour and 30 minute presentation but there is a lot of material to cover. Okay all right so first of all let's look at the definition of what an OER is. OER stands for open educational resources and these are teaching learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits sharing accessing repurposing including for commercial purposes and collaborating with others. Okay so notice there is some emphasis on some of these phrases so the first one is reside in the public domain. Okay so these are materials that are typically in a website they can be in a repository like a large library of OERs Merlot is one of them you might have heard of Merlot or OER Commons so they reside in the public domain so somewhere where we can all access. They're also licensed under an intellectual property license so that is the Creative Commons licenses that I mentioned earlier and I'll go over those with you as well and these licenses permit sharing this is really important accessing right we need to be able to access those resources for them to be open. We may need to be able to repurpose those materials as well so I need to be able to share them with my students maybe share them with colleagues and collaborate with others right so right now I'm in a project where I'm collaborating with my fellow faculty on an OER resource and we are actually revising and rewriting some portions of that resource so I should be able to have access repurpose and the right to share and collaborate with others okay now this definition is from the U.S. Office of Education from their 2010 plan in their 2020 plan this definition was not included because it was assumed that everyone knew what OERs are so I am re-including that definition because many of us still you know are we've heard of them but we're not quite sure what they are okay. Diana yes so can we go back to the definition for a second. Austin had a couple of questions on the repurpose so question repurpose how and then the second question is the repurposing strictly defined or completely open. If it's an open resource then it's completely open so repurposing can mean sharing as is or as in my case with my grantees that we are rewriting or remixing that original resource so I can repurpose I'm repurposing it to match my student population because we liked this resource but there were things about it that just didn't fit and so we are repurposing we are remixing and we are revising that resource does that make sense. I think we're good okay Diana yeah all right so we're gonna look at this a little bit more we're gonna look at this definition with some examples and so we need to talk when we talk about OERs we need to discuss the five Rs because repurpose reuse revise remix redistribute and retain those are the five Rs of OERs that means that in order for a resource to be considered a true OER they must contain these five key points okay so let's look at the right hand side here so revise so if a resource is a true OER then we have the right to revise that resource so content can be adapted adjusted modified or altered right we've all used books and resources that we we think wow this book is great maybe about 70% of it is great but 30% of it oh I can't use I wish it had this I wish it included this so with an OER you have the right to adapt that resource and make it useful for your course you also have the right to remix so the original or revised content can be combined with other content to create something new okay so if you like that resource let's say you like two or three resources and you like one unit from one book another unit from another book a third unit from another book you can remix those if it's a true OER you can remix those three resources to create a whole new resource the next one is redistribute so with this are you can copy you can make copies of the content and they can be shared with others in its original revised or remixed form okay so you want the right to redistribute on the left hand side we'll start at the top with reuse and this gives you the right to reuse the content in its unaltered form or in its altered form as well so you can use it in your course you can talk about it on in a presentation so many uses for reuse the last one is retain so you should have the right to retain a copy of the resource you should be able to archive it or own copies of the content you if you use an LMS you can upload that resource to your canvas or google classroom so those are the five Rs and resources that contain the five Rs along with the creative commons license are considered OERs any questions yeah Diana we have a couple of questions so from Durin I think this is back on the redistribute item so her question is is it just make copies or put it back up online for free just distribution both so you have the right to so for example the book or the resource that I'm working on I'm remixing it so I'm changing it I'm adding some of my own resources to it I'm going to add it to my canvas commons I'm going to share it with my faculty members and I'm also going to upload it to one of the repositories I'm going to upload it to creative commons website so yes it's both retain I mean both make a copy and also you can upload it to your site okay great and Dr. Broussard asked about will the slides be available so yeah at OTAN we are doing that we are making the recordings we do video remediation remediation as a part of our process for making the videos available publicly so it will take a little time to get the video available on the OTAN website but Diana are you sharing the slides separately or how are you doing that yes at the end of the presentation I can share them in chat okay great show the link in chat okay she says sorry Dr. Broussard says fantastic thank you and then Austin has a question so this means with the back on the five R's so this means that I could take parts of the OER and mix it with my school's curriculum books correct correct as long as your school's curriculum books are not copyrighted materials because then that's when we run into problems so as long as your curriculum it doesn't have to be an OER it can be a free resource and copyright free resource then you can remix it without violating copyright law okay thank you Diana we're good for questions at the moment okay all right so let's go ahead and continue and so these are the five Creative Commons licenses and so you'll see this barometer here on the left hand side the licenses at the top are the least restrictive so they're identified by the green section here and as you go down the list it starts getting yellow right kind of like a traffic light like warning something's happening here there's some kind of restriction here and then the most restrictive restrictive licenses are towards the bottom so these have some you notice the circle with the slash through it right so there's some not some things you cannot do okay so let me go over these really quick so they're identified by symbols and also the symbols are defined here by acronyms and then the definition is in the last column so the first license is CC by and this license lets you distribute remix tweak or change and build upon the original work even commercially as long as you credit the original creator this is the most accommodating of licenses offered okay so all of these licenses have the CC by so CC stands for Creative Commons the by is by attribution that means you have to give the original author credit for their work somewhere in your presentation or somewhere in your book or revised material you know something like this was adapted from Diana Vera's alba's book on blah blah blah right and then of course you will take credit for the new revised work as well so the next license is CC by SA and this is Creative Commons by attribution share alike so this license lets you remix tweak and build upon the original work even for commercial purposes as long as you credit the original work and license your new creations under the identical terms this license is often compared to copy left free and open resource software licenses all new works based on the work should carry the same license so any derivatives which are changes will also allow commercial use this is the license used by Wikipedia okay so with this license identical to the first license but they added the share alike and that means that they want you to use this same exact license on your revised work so that if they are sharing it with you they want you to share it with others it also saves the integrity of the original author's work of how they want their uh resource to be shared okay they want it to be shared alike with everyone else any questions so far so Diana Harold is asking if we can get a copy of this license breakdown so you did mention that you will share the slides at the end of today so this will be included in the slides right correct and all of the images that I have are linked out this particular image was created by another OER coordinator at my district from Mesa College and so if you get to the slides and you click on image here see how it's underlined it's a direct link to the picture okay perfect thank you all right so the next license is cc by nd and this stands for creative commons by attribution non-derivatives so this license allows for redistribution commercial and non-commercial as well as long as it's passed along unchanged and in whole with credit to the original work okay so now we're seeing we're not seeing I can remix or tweak right we don't see that in this that's what the non-derivatives means so you can use the resource exactly as is without making any changes so if you see this license equal means the same you have to keep it the same again you can use it for commercial purposes but commercial and non-commercial purposes but you cannot make any changes to the work it has to stay in its original form any questions on this license diana just to say I actually tracked down the chart in your in your canvas course and I put the link to the page in the chat if people want to look at that chart directly but this is the beauty of OER right being able to find these these resources available online take a look at them share them and then do all the all the things that you want to do with OER so yep thank you anthony yes perfect example okay all right so let's go to the next license and this is cc by nc and this stands for creative commons by attribution non-commercial so with this license you can remix tweak and build upon the original work non-commercially your new works must be non-commercial and acknowledge the original work but you don't have the license you don't have to license your divert derivative works on the same terms so this one is missing the s a right but what it's not missing or yes what it is missing is the right to make a profit off of it okay so that's what this symbol is here so you can use it you can change it you don't have to use the same license as the original author which I always thought this was strange because that could lead to someone thinking that they can make a profit off it or they can no never mind I just confused myself but anyways this is the license I least like for some reason because that part to me too many is confusing like I cannot make a profit but I can change it so yes that is non-commercial okay any questions on that license I think we're good Diana okay so the next license is cc by nc s a and this stands for creative commons by attribution non-commercial share alike so this license lets you remix tweak and build upon the original work non-commercially as long as you credit the original work and license your new creations under the identical term okay so we cannot make a profit okay we can change the resource we can remix it we can mix it with our own materials as long as we use the identical license on that new resource that you create okay any questions on this license all right and the last one is the most restrictive license okay and this is cc by nc nd which stands for creative commons by attribution non-commercial no derivative works so with this license you can only download the original work and share it with others as long as you give credit to the original author you cannot change the original work so no remixing no changing in any way or you cannot use it commercially so basically with this type of resource you can only use it as is as is you can teach with it you can share it with a colleague you can even upload it to your canvas lms account or your google sites or your google classroom without any changes no changes to that work and you have to anytime you add anything to a website you have to add the license so like just to be clear on that any questions diana yes there is a question from austin so basically like a citation in a paper or a powerpoint correct correct so that's what that's basically what the licenses do they are citations in in the oer world we call them attributions but they're they are just like citations okay i don't see any other questions at the moment all right so let's go ahead and continue so we're going to look at or watch a video on oer's the five r's and open licenses so everything i just went over wrapped up in a great little five minute video so let's watch oer the five r's and creative commons licenses david wiley wrote about the five hours of open when he published his original work defining the open in open content and open educational resources his work was published with a creative commons attribution 4.0 license this means it can be used and in this case adapted and remixed as long as we give credit to him for the original work the five hours include retain the right to make own and control copies of the content reuse the right to use the content in a wide range of waves revise the right to adapt adjust modify or alter the content itself remix the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new redistribute the right to share copies of the original content your revisions or your remixes with others the five-hour visual used in this video was created by the state university of new york's oer services the visual was shared using the same license david wiley used it too was used adapted and remixed and the creator has been given credit creative commons licenses often accompany open educational resources the license associated with a resource guides which of the five hours of open you can engage in with regard to the resource adopt oer let's say you found a resource developed by someone else and it suits your objectives perfectly you would like to start using it right away and you don't want to change a thing you want to retain reuse and redistribute the work all licenses require that you credit the original creator with cc by attribution that is all that is required of you so it is the most open of all the licenses cc by s a means by attribution and share alike in other words you must credit the creator and share the resource as it was shared with you some licenses include nd which means no derivatives others include and c which means that the resource was not intended for commercial purposes or monetary compensation adapt oer now imagine discovering an oer that has many of the elements you were looking for but misses the mark on some others so you are hoping that you can adapt it you intend to modify alter customize and change it you get the idea loren angsty was the original creator of the video adopt adapt create which i adapted to make this video youtube allows users to mark their videos with a creative commons cc by license which is what loren did now let's take the idea of adapt a little bit further and say that during your search you located a couple of other resources that would complement the adaptation of the original resource you found so now it is your intention to embark on a remix of several open educational resources you'll need to look for licenses that allow for all five hours because you want to retain an original reuse parts of it revise other sections and remix elements of other resources with it you intend to redistribute the revised and remix works in other words you are going to share the resulting derivative work you'll need to stay away from creative commons licenses that include nd because nd stipulates that the work be passed along unchanged and in whole no derivatives and remember when you csa associated with an open resource plan to share your derivative in the same way that the original was shared with you create oer now imagine you've searched and searched creative commons licensed resources and nothing suits you you've decided to create new content your work will grow through your own expertise and intellectual engagement or through a collaboration with your students when it is complete you'll need to decide how your work will be shared by considering the following questions will you allow adaptations of your work do you want adaptations to be shared in the same way that you shared will you allow commercial uses for your work your answers will help you zero in on the right creative commons license for you my choice for this video cc by attribution for more information visit creative commons dot org slash choose okay all right any questions about that video at the end of the video she mentioned creative commons slash choose so creative commons has an attribution builder on their website it's really nice very easy to use and it has a series of five different yes and no questions to help you decide if you're undecided to help you decide which creative commons licenses for you so at the end of that those five yes no questions it'll give you the license that best fits your answers or your desires for your materials all right so let's go ahead and continue and we're going to look at the differences of oer and open resources so what are some differences between oer's and open resources so the chief difference between open resources and oer's is that users have the ability to retain reuse revise remix and redistribute so remember those licenses that we looked at some of those licenses are very restrictive so the ones towards the bottom so let's go back to that chart oops there where it is so these licenses at the bottom they are considered open resources but they're not considered creative commons or i'm sorry they don't contain the five ours so they are free to use right you can still you could still use those resources you just can't make any changes to those resources right so that's what that definition means here okay so you in order for an oer to be a true oer it has to contain the five ours okay so what are oer and how are oer different from other resources so oer's have general rights for copying and repurposing that make oer different from other educational resources available online free of charge so free materials and courses such as MOOCs allow users only fair use rights or rights stated and specifically licensed issued by the publisher okay so these types of resources you can still use in your classroom you just wouldn't be able to more more than likely you wouldn't be able to remix them or change them okay most of them cannot be legally copied and users cannot create their own courses based on them or update them if a mistake has been found not that not that is without explicit agreement from the copyright owner okay so here on the third bullet point we're talking about copyrighted materials right now at my district we use a copyrighted book for our lower level ESL students so there's a book called ventures that we use and since my district purchased licenses for ventures to be used in canvas our faculty can upload the ventures modules into canvas because they have that agreement with the copyright owner okay so it is possible but that agreement usually means a cost right which that was the case for our district in the case of open educational resources all users are given the rights above without needing to request permission from the copyright holder so that's one of the advantages of the Creative Commons licenses is that the author has already spelled out for you how they would like you to use their works either with CC by meaning it's open you can do whatever you want with it as long as you give me credit for it or with the restrictive license where some of them say no derivatives no changes or non-commercial you cannot make a profit off of it okay so the users rights are clearly specified under the Creative Commons licenses and easily understandable so most OER materials are published under free Creative Commons licenses or as public domain okay so we're going to look a little bit at what public domain means so public domain versus open license okay so if some resource is identified as public domain that means the copyright ownership is waived so there is no copyright attached to a resource that is identified as public domain the author gives away their right to the public to reproduce and redistribute creative works also with something that is in the public domain since they are giving up and waiving their ownership you don't have to attribute it back to the original owner you could I always do and I do it for two purposes so that if someone wants to know where I retrieved that resource from like that image that someone asked me about earlier in the presentation you know there's a direct link and I don't forget where I retrieved that information and also just it just kind of doesn't feel right to me not to give the original author credit so anything in the public domain the owner that the most important thing is the owner gives the waives their copyright with the open license so those are those six Creative Commons licenses the copyright ownership is retained okay so even though I licensed my work with the least restrictive license which is CC by I'm not giving up my copyright I still own the copyright to that original material I'm just illustrating or I'm explaining exactly how I want downstream users to use my materials so the author grants broad rights to the public to reproduce and redistribute redistribute their creative works okay any questions about public domain and Creative Commons license work Diana just a comment from Durin I believe this comment refers to the open license or the CC licenses that you've been talking about so her Durin's comment was it's also a CYA showing you have the right to use it yes so that comment was in reference to public domain putting the attribution for public domain people if you don't put it there then they don't know whether or not you have permission so if you say it's public domain and I got it from here then you have essentially CYA so that no one will come behind you and say oh you stole that image from somewhere great and all of the licenses uh Creative Commons licenses including public domain if you'll be able to retrieve those from the Creative Commons website and there's a direct link to the definition which is really nice so whenever you attribute work you're right it's a CYA because you are directly linking to the definition you kind of washed your hands of that for downstream users the other thing with that I thank you for bringing that up is that there are many copyrighted materials out on the internet right and you don't know unless you look at the terms of use or unless it's licensed or unless it has some kind of logo you don't know if it is copyrighted or not so that's always my concern when I talk to faculty and I'm trying to help them you find materials online that are OERs I the first thing I show them is where to look because sometimes it's not apparent sometimes it's not on the main page and the terms of use is usually where we find it or the about section if they don't have a terms of use the about section might spell it out but yeah that's one of the concerns with so many materials being online now is not knowing if it's if if somewhere down the line it had a copyright logo and someone uploaded it without that logo that's kind of scary too okay thank you Diana and thank you Durin for clarifying my mistake there and then we do have a question Diana from Austin so OER are open license not public domain correct correct so these are different there's public domain which is actually a C with a circle around it it looks like copyright it's a C oh sorry not just a C the C is copyright but it's a C and a zero and that stands for a public domain and the open licenses are the creative commons licenses that the six that we just went over that I'll start with the CC by so yes these are two distinct types of materials okay thank you I think we're good for questions now okay thanks all right um so we're gonna watch another video called want to work together and notice that this has the creative commons logo up on top this was created by creative commons so let's watch when you share your creativity you're enabling people anywhere to use it learn from it and be inspired by it take the teacher who shapes young minds with work and wisdom from around the globe and the artist who builds beauty out of bits and pieces she finds online and the writer whose stories use ideas and images crafted by people he's never even met these people know that when you share your creative wealth you can accomplish great things they and millions of other people all around the planet are working together to build a richer better more vibrant culture using creative commons to understand creative commons you need to know a little bit about how copyright works did you know that when you create something anything from a photograph to a song to a drawing to a film to a story you automatically own an all rights reserved copyright to that creativity that's true copyright protects your creativity against uses you don't consent to but sometimes full copyright is too restrictive what about when you want all those millions and millions of people out there to use your work without the hassle of coming to you for permission what if you want your work to be freely shared reused and built upon by the rest of the world luckily there's an creative commons we provide free copyright licenses you can use to tell people exactly which parts of your copyright you're happy to give to the public it's easy it only takes a minute and it's totally free just come to our website and answer a few quick questions like will you allow commercial uses of your work and will you allow your work to be modified based on your answers we'll give you a license that clearly communicates what people can and can't do with your creativity you don't give up your copyright you refine it so it works better for you welcome to a new world where collaboration rules it didn't even exist just a few years ago but now there are millions and millions of songs pictures videos written works available to share reuse remix all for free want to work together then join the commons creative commons okay all right so let's go ahead and continue any questions diana just a comment from austin you said that some companies force employees to turn their copyright ownership of their ideas to the company yes it's depends on the their their work contract right and the same goes for works that we as instructors that we are paid for by the district to create so for example i am in a grant right now and that grant was provided by the district and there are four instructors that got together and we're revising and remixing a work we're getting paid for that so since we are getting paid for it by the district now the district owns that material our names will still be on it as creators as authors of the new work but the district does own that work so it really depends on your contract with your district or your employer so you want to be very clear about that any other questions diana sorry so then the follow-up question from austin so with that example could you use the material from that in a new project with a different employer that's a good question and i would ask my employer because it depends on how you were paid and it depends on the stipulations of that contract so it really it depends it's it's unique for every individual contract that you enter yeah okay thank you diana so i think we're good for questions okay all right so let's go ahead whoops and continue so now let's look at copyright so what is copyright and this comes from the us copyright office so copyright is a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression so like the the person mentioned in the video as soon as you create something whether it's a piece of music it's a picture something written that's a that's in a tangible form and you automatically own copyright so in copyright law there are a lot of different types of works including paintings photographs illustrations musical compositions sound recordings computer programs books poems blog posts movies architectural works plays and so much more so once you create an original work and fix it like taking a photograph writing a poem or blog or recording a new song you are the author and the owner okay so that's really important for us to understand because in the past there were different means of obtaining copyright and some of them were costly right you would have to hire an attorney or someone that is it's usually a copyright attorney or I've also heard things like people would email themselves their transcript you know manuscript or something like that so there were different ways that people tried to kind of gain or that copyright but in reality now once you once it's tangent created in a tangible form you own that copyright okay all right so let's continue we're going to watch this short video on copyright and let's go ahead and start sorry the beginning is just music these are jack and make white also known as the white stripes they're a band from Detroit they make rock and roll without a bass guitarist this is Steve McDonald of the veteran band red cross steve thought the white stripes could use a bass player so he appointed himself he took the white stripes album both white blood cells and re-recorded it laying a bass track down on every song then he released the results as mp3's on red crosses website he even made up a new album cover and title red blood cells McDonald began putting these copyrighted songs online without permission from the white stripes or their record label during the project he bumped into jack white who gave him spoken ascent to continue it can be that easy when you skip the intermediaries collaboration across space and time creative co-authorship with people you've never met standing on the shoulders of your peers it's what the internet is all about it can be that easy when you skip the intermediaries but couldn't it be easier still not many of us are liable just to bump into jack white and get the green light and he's not going to let just anyone play the bass over his songs in any case but what about other artists who might want you or me to play along shouldn't we be able to if they don't mind enter one of the internet's most famous citizens a face familiar the world over a public identity rivaled only by a handful of corporate giants and global superstars the big copyright c everyone knows what big c stands for big c means all rights reserved big c means ask permission big c protects copyright owners and notifies the rest of us of their ownership time was when you had to put big c on anything you wanted to copyright or else it entered the public domain the commons of information where nothing is owned and all is permitted you had to put the world on notice to warn them that was big c's job and it was a useful one what changed the law by the late 1980s u.s. law had changed so that works become copyrighted automatically the moment they're made the moment you hit save on that research paper the second the shutter snaps closed an instant you lift your pen from that cocktail napkin doodle your creation is copyrighted where the big c makes a cameo or not so suddenly there's no quick way of knowing whether something's owned or not the new rules may be clear about how you get to own a work you don't have to do anything but they say nothing at all about how you should go about announcing that you want to allow certain uses of your work so what well if you're a digital filmmaker whose every frame must be cleared by an army of lawyers before making the cut or if you're in a band whose label won't let you put a song on a file sharing network or if you're a professor trying to put together online course materials or if you're a dj chasing down permission to use every snippet of song in your sonic collage if you're one of these people then you know so what we interrupt this brainstorm to call the lawyers you drop what you're doing and call all the lawyers you ask for permission even to use a word whose author doesn't mind if you use it because you have no idea what the author's intent is you ask for permission even to share some of your rights or you venture forward unsure what your risks and rights are exactly or in a haze of legal doubt you do nothing bottom line big c is out of a job middlemen are not enter creative comments creative commons wanted to find an easy way to help people tell the world upfront that they want to allow some uses of their work we call the experts the us copyright office for advice their response there's no real answer get creative so we got creative how our cc brand marks works that are governed by creative commons licenses a set of standardized copyright licenses available free of charge on our website we wrote these licenses so that lawyers and courts could read them then we translated them into a language you can read and then we translated them into a language computers can read now cc isn't meant to compete with copyright but to complement it it allows you to retain your copyright while granting the world permission to make certain uses of it upon certain conditions if the big c is like a red light then cc is a green light if the big c says no trespassing the double c says please come in if the big c says all rights reserved cc says some rights reserved so you can use the powers of the net to find works free to share and build upon and to invite other people to transform or trade yours so that you can get creative not only with what you make but how you make it available so you can collaborate across space in time so you can be a co-author with someone you've never met so you can stand on the shoulders of your peers all without asking permission because permission has already been granted creative commons get creative it's easy when you skip the intermediaries okay any questions about that video or what you heard so diana there i think there have been a couple questions just about copyright so um so austin asked in theory i could come up with a good exercise for my lessons tell someone else that person writes it down and then they own the copyright correct yes if you didn't so the definition right if we go back to the copyright office is fixing that idea in a tangible expression and it doesn't mean that that person would not get sued um so remember facebook kind of started that way right it was friends talking about this idea someone put it in a tangible form and didn't include all the friends that had that idea so yes that can happen but does it mean that you would lose copyright if you have a good attorney i don't know i'm just making that up but no but that did happen with with facebook right and the original owners so yes the important important thing is based on the us copyright office definition right um because if it ever went into a legal battle they'd probably fall back have you fall back on that definition of a tangible form and a tangible form of expression is not limited to what i listed here so okay and then one more question from herald um so to clarify you have to register any work in order um you have to register any work in order to buy or own the copyright correct and the form is still that on the us copyright website correct that is one way to protect yourself but the new definition is right here straight from the us copyright office and there's a link to it um so it's best if you do follow that format right because then you're following the steps to actually have it out there somewhere that you've um you've fixed it in this tangible form of expression but it's not necessary because as as soon as i take a picture with my camera i own the copyright to that picture without having to fill out the necessary paperwork okay but if it's that important i would right part of our part of our society society right right mm-hmm okay so i think we're good for questions dana okay all right okay so let's get through this now this video only because we only have about 20 minutes maybe i'll come back to it but this is a great video created by an attorney he does have a series of these this uh version is on copyright exceptions and fair use okay so he goes even deeper into copyright so um it's 12 minutes so i'm not going to show it here but i did want to include it and then you'll have the link once you click on it to this site called crash course and all of his videos are on copyright but he is an attorney so he can he has some additional information and things he can talk about that i am i do not have a legal degree on so yes i recommend his videos they're fun to watch he's he's funny he's he has a very dry sarcastic humor but they're fun to watch so i recommend watching his videos all right so we're going to look at identifying oer's so like i mentioned earlier if i don't see a license one of the creative commons license or the public domain logo or copyright logo then i'm going to go to the terms of use now even when i see a copyright logo i still go to the terms of use because many times um we're educators right everybody in this room is educators or or linked to education many times in the terms of use there is something spelled out for educators so don't be discouraged if you see the copyright logo on a site or material um that's posted online go to the terms of use and um sometimes they spell things out for educational purposes this can be downloaded this book can be used this worksheet can be used but they'll tell you typically if it has a copyright you cannot make any changes but you can use it and you can uh use it in your classroom um so terms of use is is typically what i look at or the section that says legal because that's where they spell out how they want you to use or not use their materials the about section of a website sometimes they have a fair use link and and what they mean by fair use sometimes it'll have a link that says license so any of these will usually spell out how they want you to use or not use their materials or their site um there are some great repositories my to go to are uh merlot and oer commons both of these sites share some of the same resources i'm going to show you both sites and why i like merlot and oer commons one of the things that i can tell you about oer commons is that they have an adult education filter which merlot doesn't yet but i'm sure they will edit soon because merlot is very robust but both of these are sites that um they're like giant libraries of oer and zero textbook cost materials um other sites that i like to use and these are specific for images are pixabay unsplash open clip art um is another great one noun project has a lot of uh clip art that's also um open to use and and designated with a creative commons license and then if you're looking for open access books so zero textbook cost books that you want to use at your district uh and openly licensed books bc open ed is a great resource and this is from canada british columbia and they are leaps and bounds ahead of us on open educational resources so they have lots and lots of resources also um if you're looking at different states the state of washington the state of oregon and the state of texas are big advocates of oer so if you go to their educational uh websites and their um i'm thinking like their version of scowy they will have lots and lots of materials those um states that i mentioned uh open stacks has some great resources for i would say for um high school diploma g ed because these are very k through 12 types of topics so they have some great math history um those types of books and they are open and press books directory has tons of open uh openly licensed books okay those are just some of many but some of my go to so um let's take a quick tour of merlot so merlot is this giant repository of open educational resources um the night there are several other repositories the nice thing about merlot is they really do try very hard to vet some of these materials not just by the user but also um academic uh uh vetting as well okay so um when you link go to their site you will see the search bar here where you can begin your search you'll also see how many materials they are and these numbers are always growing so they have over 100,000 resources they have over 200,000 registered members over 4,000 institutions and over 500 recent contributions now with these sites i recommend whether it's merlot or oe or commons to create an account so you can sign up for free and this is the reason why because when i am in here looking for resources i can download tons and tons of things and eat up my memory in my computer or if i create an account i can add it to my cloud account for free so i can start creating my little library on their site and then once i'm ready to download it i did create a site for our faculty so once i kind of vet it um and feel that it would be a good resource for our faculty then i download it to our site um so just a heads up on the sign up and the sign up is free um on this website on their website you'll also see community and this is for academic discipline portals so if you want to connect with other faculty or other sites in your discipline that's available for you as well um academic support is available for you academic partners and members around the world so other countries as well are using open educational resources and sharing so it's kind of neat uh to connect with people all over the world and that are willing and ready to share their resources with you okay so again you can browse down here there's another opportunity to browse or you can add your materials to the merlot site so once you decide you want to uh share with others this is a great platform to share um your resources okay they have a nice content builder so if you do decide you want to share your resource they have this nice template uh for you to add your resource and the license you want to use descriptions tags it's and they have a nice tutorial on how to use it okay and then of course they they prefer that you or they want you to sign up um but you can use this site without signing up all right so let's go to the top i teach esl reading so i'm just going to do a search for esl reading and you just type your topic and then you press search so when i do that um it gives me 24 on this page of 194 results in the merlot collection okay so there's a couple things you want to look at you want to look at the the tabs going across the top once you do your search and then you want to look at the filters on the far left hand side okay so um when i want to do a search i want to start adding filters if i see anything over 50 because that's kind of a lot of resources to take a look at okay so we'll look at the filters in just a moment i want to show you these cards so the resources that popped up pop up on these cards and at a glance i could see the name of the resource maybe the company or person that created it some kind of logo or clip art like this one tells me this is probably a book here it tells gives me a brief description the type of material who the author is when it was created and when it was modified and if there's some kind of review so here it has an editor review which is an academic review so this first one has just the editor review the second resource has an editor review and also a user rating so actual users maybe other teachers that are using it um and then some of these are not reviewed yet okay um so i am curious without adding filters about this so we're going to take a look at that one so hopefully it's still there after i filter so there are some filters here you can start filtering so if you have too many resources and you want maybe only animations it'll tell you in parentheses how many there are so there's only one of these so these are the different types of filters you can start adding on and the nice thing is it will tell you in parentheses how many there are of these so if i'm only looking for quizzes yay i can review three quizzes no problem that will just take me a few minutes you can also filter by your audience okay so notice that they don't have the adult education filter yet but when when i'm looking at merlot um depending i teach advanced esl so i will click on both high school and college oops once i click it it reduces so here's high school it reduced it to 67 um i can add college general ed lower division upper division so if i do college lower division yep so now i added back on okay um so depending on what i choose it's either gonna subtract or add on my audience i can also um look for android or apple friendly materials okay and if i want to make sure that has a creative commons license on it i can click that and so now i have 13 all my book disappeared that's okay let me add the high school or remove the high school well it disappeared that's okay i'll look for it later um but these are materials that have the creative commons license on on them so that's really nice okay and now i only have 27 to look at so that's that's a nice number okay so here are some short stories which i love short stories for my students i'm gonna take a look at this if i want to look at this resource a little bit further i just click on the card and again it'll give me some of the same information that was on the card the type of material it'll give me a little bit more information because now we're on a page and um sometimes it will give me other suggestions to look at or other materials created by the same author okay so i'm still not in the resource yet if i say okay this all looks good all right uh non-commercial no problem i'm just using it in my classroom i want to look at the materials so now i'm going to click on go to to material it's going to tell me i'm leaving merlot because this is housed somewhere else and now i am in the resource so it's nice because this author has all these beautiful subheadings uh there's a pdf version a word version because remember i can revise this material right it has the cc by nc it doesn't have the nd so if i want to revise or just take pieces of this chapter i can okay any questions on merlot okay so let's quickly go to oer commons and oer commons is very similar to the look of merlot maybe not as busy but it has many of the same if you want to collaborate with others connect with others that's all there for you um but let's do a quick oh there's also they also have an open author where if you want to upload uh materials you can and they have a nice five minute video that shows you how to do that um so let's go ahead and look for my same esl reading here i can add the educational level that i want and there is adult education so if i only want to look for materials for adult education i can add that filter here or i usually don't add the filter up front i'll add it once i get to my resource page so i'm just going to leave it there i just wanted to show you it is up front but you if you forget to add it or um you want to filter uh what's available then um you can also add it on this next page okay so now i didn't have the filter other than the topic of esl reading so i have 268 uh resources so now i can add my educational level here with these these drop down arrows so if i choose adult education now i only have 68 that's a little bit better i can also look at licensed types so merlot just had creative commons license with um uh oh we are commons you can add unrestricted use only sharing permitted conditional remixing okay so if i want unrestricted that's either public domain or creative commons or cc by the least restrictive license i can add that and i can add public domain and oops let me take off public domain it added some on there okay there we are 27 so all of these are cc by and if i want again it gives me these cards with the license brief explanation i always like to look at when it was added i like looking at newer resources since i'm in here a lot if i want to look at the resource i just click on the title or the card and similar to merlot it gives me a little bit more information some tag words and uh no sometimes there will be other recommendations at the at the bottom um on oh we are commons if it's a resource you like you can add it directly to uh if you use google classroom you can add it there or you can share it out here it also tells you how many people have viewed it how many people have saved it and if there are any comments so if i want to look at the resource i choose view resource and here is the resource so this one happens to be a lesson plan and there is some information if i want to download it i can download it if i only want to view it i can just choose view okay so that was a quick quick uh view of uh oh we are commons okay okay all right so we are at the end of our webinar today um so we went over the characteristics of oer's and the five oh five r's of the oer's creative commons licenses we went over some differences between oer's and other types of resources we went over copyright briefly went over copyright and then we went over identifying oer's and just to let you know there are some additional resources direct links here for some of the um resources that i talked about i didn't talk about this oer toolkit but it was shared with me so i'm sharing it out with you lots and lots of links in this oer toolkit so if you're just getting started or if you have an oer librarian or a librarian at your site or oer coordinator like me that is a great resource for your faculty or or just you if you want to take a look at that lots of resources in that toolkit