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

[Jonathan Roberts]

On 28/09/2007, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the reply Tim :D

I was thinking more along the lines of student media projects rather
than educational content but both are definitely worth encouraging!

Thanks,

Jon
>
> 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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