[FC-discuss] [FC-Discuss] Universities and free content

[Tim Cowlishaw]

At my university, at least, we were required to assign all copyrights in
work related to our study, or produced on college premises / with college
equipment to the college themselves, which meant that none of my work could
be liberally-licenced (ironically, including a promotional animation for CC
I made as a final-year project). However, I'm not sure that this is the norm
or not (although Lessig's had a pop at the Academy of Creative Media on
Hawaii for a similar thing:
http://lessig.org/blog/2007/08/on_teaching_artists_rights.html).

However, it seems to me that it should be pretty easy to encourage adoption
of CC in academia, possibly as an alternative to the assignments-of-rights
that i mentioned above. There's precedent for it, through initiatives like
MIT's open courseware, and since the business model of universities is not
principally based upon being a rights-holder (but does rely heavily on
access to knowledge) it would seem apparent that CC or other liberal
licences might be more appropriate to many aspects of academic life than all
rights reserved copyright.

Cheers,

Tim

On 9/28/07, Jonathan Roberts <jonathan.roberts.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wondered if anybody had any thoughts on student led media projects
> at universities, such as newspapers/radio/web/tv, and free/open
> licenses?
>
> Is adoption of free/open licenses for content created in these kind of
> projects a useful thing to work towards (for those of us interested in
> free culture, I can't see why not!?)?
>
> Are there any particular issues that would be likely to block adoption
> of such licenses?
>
> Any other thoughts!?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Jon
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