Hi José Yes you are correct, the default position in the absence of any license statement is all-rights reserved, unless the copyright has expired and the resource is in the public domain.
Agreed -- while open access is better than no access, from an intellectual property rights perspective these resources are no different from all rights reserved. In many countries, research is subsidised by government and under an all rights reserved default position, taxpayers may need to pay twice for access to publicly funded research :-(. If you want to review more detail on copyright and creative commons, you can visit these tutorials (all available as OER :-)) : - Copy*right*: Your educational right to copy<http://wikieducator.org/Copyright_for_Educators/Introduction> - Creative Commons unplugged<http://wikieducator.org/Creative_Commons_unplugged/Introduction> With acknowledgement to WIkiEducators, Creative Commoners, volunteers from the OCWC consortium and funding support from UNESCO for the development of these open resources. Wayne On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:55 AM, José Mota <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Ellen, Daniel and Wayne for your feedback :-), > > I think I am not mistaken in thinking that the default of anything > available for free online that doesn't have a license or explicit terms of > use is traditional copyright. In my view, that is the case with > repositories (I am referring to universities or public organisms) that > provide free access to scientific material that can be used in education, > but no license or a statement indicating the terms of use. They are "open > access", and they are educational resources, but reading your comments lead > me to maintain that they are not, or the items they contain, open > educational resources. They are not different from any other materials that > we can use in education and which, despite being freely available online, > do not state their conditions of use. > > The field is evolving so fast I think these ambiguities will tend to be > better clarified in the near future, but for now I'll stick with this > belief. Not that it matters a lot in practical terms, but it does when > you're approaching this from an academic or research perspective. > > Thanks again :-) > > José Mota > Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning > Universidade Aberta > Portugal > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
