WeCreate

Royal Society

"A chance for Wellington region school leaders and Boards of Trustees to discuss copyright solutions for more innovative sharing, and better reuse of educational resources in New Zealand schools."

So I went along because I am interested in ways we can share our resources and therefore be able to use resources shared by others.  I also wanted to know more about using resources "within the law" and also to try to find out how I can have my students do this also. 

A guy from the Ministry spoke first, but I didn't catch his name.  He talked briefly about the investment the Ministry has made in working with other agencies and creating policy, etc about the sharing and ownership of schools' resources.

Wayne MacIntosh
OER Foundation
"Sharing to learn" to "Learning to share"

WikiEducator - largest and most production resource sharing in the world of education
Share, Remix, Reuse - "Legitimate plagiarism?"

Shoulders of giants - education, by nature, steals from others, especially the past.
Embrace your repsonsibility to lead

Collaboration lowers cost of creating resources
OER and Creative Commons can overcome the forced cost of copyright materials, which are restricted by copyright for the purpose of gaining revenue.

Format, location and CC licence need to be decided before authoring begins, so that hands are not tied later, i.e. if you author a piece based on existing resources but you don't know where you got original ideas from, then you may not be able to share it. 

Profiles of schools on WikiEducator, shared resources on Moodle in shared repository.
= Should teachers in schools share on behalf of school, or as individuals??
Can do both, perhaps up to BOT to decide as owners of materials.

In NZ, our collective agreements are silent on intellectual property, unlike most other similar sort of contracts in developed world.
Though it is included in tertiary contracts.  Why is there a difference?

Ownership of resources created by teachers??
Legal ownership lies with BOT, in all cases unless otherwise agreed.  Info on TKI
What needs to happens so can teachers share their resources?  And so we can take our resources with us when we transfer to a different school?

Teachers might argue that resources made in their own time on their own laptops are their won property. This is incorrect.  If you create something for the purpose of the position you are currently employed in, that creation is the property of your BOT.
And this resource will carry the default licence "All rights reserved"

However, the copyright act, within which the above falls, was written for print based resources. What about our growing collections of digital and online resources?

Jane Hornibrook
Creative Commons NZ
jane.hornibrook@royalsociety.org.nz

Policy = NZ Government Open Access Licensing Framework = NZGOAL
School BOTs are included in the scope of NZGOAL and are invited to apply it.

Schools should make it policy to use default licence CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution = meaning others can use it if they attribute the owner correctly) then add other conditions.  It is too restrictive to start with closed copyright and then open.  Start open and then think of conditions.

Team apporach needed within institutions in order for policy to be applied, maintained and kept live.
Who knows the policy?  If it is being used properly?  Who is applying it?
Who is in charge? Who is igoring it?
Kiwi-can-do attitude has lead NZ to have the first govt to adopt an open policy.

WikiEducator has online courses on how to use WEd, inlcuding seminars.

Be aware of use of published resources within our own resources.

CC is not an alternative to C (copyright) it builds on it and works with it.
Licensing is proactive - you must apply a new set of rules and conditions.
Make sure you publish under NZ CC licences - as different regions.countries have different rules and responsibilities.

Philosophical differences
Freedoms given to group of users V. Freedom of the content

Currently all resources created in schools, according to NZ copyright act, default to "All rights reserved"

CC does not take away rights of owner/creator/C holder - it just gives permissions.
Licences are irrevocable.  Licences cannot be taken off once applied.  Specific licence permissions need to be carefully considered before licences are applied.

Originals will always be available under original licence.
CC doesn't restrict commercial value under copyright.


What do we do now???
BOT needs an IP policy that allows freedoms but keeps properties.

Albany Senior High School
on OER/WikiEd
= win/win for BOT and creative staff
Recognises staff, see policy here

Also asserts BOT has no legal right over student work.

A minor can apply a licence and release under copyright, however, this cannot be defended in a court in their own right.