JISClegal podcasts about Recording Lectures and Screencasts

June 9, 2011 at 3:45 pm | Posted in lecture recording | 2 Comments
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JISClegal have released a series of seven short videos, orginally presented as a live webcast. They cover the legal, technical and accessibility issues, and include an instructional ‘How To’ segment, panel discussion and Q&A with experts from JISC Legal, JISC Digital Media and JISC Techdis.

Part 1 – Introduction (8 mins)

Part 2 -Basic Recording Tips (4 mins)

Part 3 -Preparing to Record (32 mins)

Part 4 – Your Questions Answered (12 mins)

Part 5 -Making a Recording (16 mins)

Part 6 -Making the Recording Available (16 mins)

Part 7 – Final Questions (10 mins)

Self-study module on copyright and IPR

April 14, 2011 at 11:00 am | Posted in useful links | Leave a comment
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The JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance has just released a new elearning module which covers the thorny topics of copyright and intellectual property rights. This is especially relevant for tutors creating learning resources that will be made available online (through EdShare perhaps) or presentations that will be captured using Panopto.

Naomi Korn, one of the authors of the resource, said: “The module has been developed to directly address those people in institutions who may be new to the issues around intellectual property rights and licensing or for those who want to learn more about specific issues.  We anticipate that people will want to customise, reuse and share the information so it is has been developed in an open source platform and the content licensed under Creative Commons licences, making the resource as flexible as possible.”

The module is divided into six learning objects with supporting case studies, video and animation:

  1. Introduction to IPR and Licensing
  2. Creative Commons Licences
  3. Orphan Works and Risk Management
  4. Digital Economy Act
  5. Accessing and Using Third Party Content
  6. Protecting and Managing Rights

More Tutorial Videos about Panopto

March 14, 2011 at 12:11 pm | Posted in lecture recording | Leave a comment
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I’ve just revamped the Panopto support pages on the iSolutions website, and  there are now many more short tutorial videos that show tutors how to make best use of the system:

  • how to edit recordings,
  • how to control access to them,
  • the legal issues you need to consider, such as copyright.

There are also videos aimed at students – there is one that provides a general introduction to Panopto and another that shows them how to access the podcast versions.

Credit where credit is due

February 9, 2011 at 5:09 pm | Posted in software | Leave a comment
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I am usually keen to share any work I produce and take the time to apply Creative Commons licences – typically BY NC SA (attribution, non-commercial, share alike). The flip side of this is that I also take the time to attribute any resources I use with their CC licence. This process just got a whole lot easier with the release of a plug-in for Firefox and Chrome browsers called OpenAttribute that automatically collects the citation info so you can just paste it where required.

This also prompted me to release this blog under a CC licence using the simple instructions on the WordPress support site.

The plain text attribution for this page looks like this:

Work found at https://telic.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/credit-where-credit-is-due/ / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)

While the HTML version looks like this:

Work found at https://telic.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/credit-where-credit-is-due/ / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

JISC legal podcasts

December 9, 2010 at 5:22 pm | Posted in lecture recording | Leave a comment
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JISC Legal have released a podcast in which Jackie Milne and John X Kelly discuss some of the issues covered in their recent guidance notes. It lasts 12 minutes and covers a good deal of ground; the key point I noted was the need to encourage tutors to make greater use of resources with open-access or permissive Creative Commons licences, therby avoiding all the problems that arise when third-party resources are used in lectures that are being recorded.

The Panopto pages on the iSolutions website have been updated to include the latest advice from our own Legal Services – in particular see our detailed advice on the use of Creative Commons resources.

Institutional Copyright and Creative Commons

September 13, 2010 at 3:58 pm | Posted in waffle | Leave a comment
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I’ve been developing guidelines for tutors about the use of our forthcoming lecture capture system, and some of these concern copyright. In essence, we will ask tutors to pause the recording whenever they show material that they or the University does not own. This includes external websites, YouTube videos and PDF journal articles as well as photos from the web or diagrams scanned from textbooks that have been included in PowerPoint slides. This is less than ideal, but it is important that the teaching is not distorted by the fact of recording.

Adam Procter, a colleague from the Winchester School of Art, pointed out that this problem also extends to the use of material with a Creative Commons licence. These frequently include a ‘share alike’ option which means that resources that include these items must also adopt a CC Share-Alike licence. This conflicts with the University’s IPR regulations, which state that the institution owns all material created by staff in the line of duty. On the other hand, given the University’s support for the EdShare respository and its use of CC licences, I hope it may not be too difficult to negotiate a relaxation of the IPR regulations.

Blackboard good practice guide

July 2, 2010 at 10:41 am | Posted in useful links | Leave a comment
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I’ve just uploaded this new short guide on EdShare – four sides of A4 that hopefully provide concise advice about essential practices, recommended practices, blended learning, accessibility and copyright. It is always a tension between providing sufficient advice and so much that tutors won’t read it… hopefully this strikes the right balance.

Copyright Questions: making book chapters available to students

June 3, 2010 at 3:23 pm | Posted in useful links | Leave a comment
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Last month I took part in a ‘copyright refresher’ day organised by the Library. A group of us submitted questions and then attempted to answer someone else’s. I picked what seemed to be a perfectly straightforward question about copying chapters from a book published in 1916… but the more I looked into this example the more interesting it became. The author was Simon Dubnow, a Jewish historian and activist, who was shot by the Nazis in the ghetto at Riga (Latvia) in 1941 – and Wikipedia rapidly led me to more details than I really wanted to know about the atrocities that occurred there. UK law grants copyright for 70 years from the author’s death – so that means it runs out soon in 2012. Now US copyright law is different and states that all books published in the US prior to 1923 are in the public domain – so there the book is out of copyright and has been made freely available on Project Gutenberg. This raises the interesting question “are we allowed to link to it?”

I’ve made my talk available as n 8-minute narrated slideshow produced using Adobe Presenter – the more I use this PowerPoint add-on, the more impressed I am.

New Copyright licence for dyslexic students

June 2, 2010 at 3:33 pm | Posted in useful links | Leave a comment
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The Copyright Licencing Agency HE licence has always allowed the University to create accessible versions of books and journals for visually-disabled students. This would normally be a text file, such as a PDF, that works with a text-to-speech program. The Library could use OCR (optical character recognition) to create these text files providing a suitable file was not already available.

The licence has recently been extended to cover students with any ‘print disability’, including dyslexia – and this is significant since this is the most widespread disability encountered.  More details here.

The Kultur project and E-Prints

June 8, 2009 at 11:02 am | Posted in projects | Leave a comment
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The JISC-funded Kultur project (led by the University of Southampton) has just released its final report. Its aim was to develop a flexible multimedia repository that can showcase a wide range of outputs, from digital versions of painting, photography, film, graphic and textile design, to records of performances, shows and installations.

Our E-Prints institutional repository has traditionally only stored textual research material such as journal articles, but thanks to this project it can now also cope with research outputs from the creative and applied arts. A significant part of the project has been exploring the intellectual property and copyright issues involved, and they have produced a simple copyright flowchart.

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