On 28/09/2007, Tim Cowlishaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > <[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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
