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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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