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CEN Works on Intellectual Property and Digital Rights - Overview
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CEN Workshop on Learning Technologies
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The CEN Workshop on 'Learning Technologies' has issued the report "Educational Copyright Licence Conditions". The report takes the widest possible interpretation of education to cover both formal and informal learning, institutional and individual activities. The creation and use of electronic educational materials, either by an individual creator or user or by institutional producers and students, will result either in the creation of work protected by copyright or in the use of work protected by copyright. In fact, the most likely scenario is that it will result in both the creation and use of copyright. Educational creators and users are involved in creating and protecting and licensing their materials and also in using the works of others under licence.
The development of standards for educational digital rights management is both too important for WS-LT to ignore and too complex for it to solve alone. The most effective approach for WS-LT is to keep abreast of developments worldwide and to make an input to those groups identified in the report as making substantial contributions to the development of robust Digital Rights Models in both the commercial rights industries and educational transactional models. |
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The report "Educational Copyright Licence Conditions" involves the following subjects:- To collate and organise an overview of European and other (e.g. North American, Australian) use cases and current practice regarding educational copyright licensing conditions and associated business processes obtained from major suppliers and users and other actors.
- To determine through surveys and consultation with relevant experts how use cases, best practice and associated business processes may change to take account of relevant technical developments.
- To establish what provision exists or is envisaged, either technically or in terms of business processes, to extend current copyright licensing schemes and best practice to handle new media and new uses.
- To examine the relevance of open source licensing models for the educational community.
- To examine the degree to which European educational licence conditions might be harmonised.
- To recommend how WS-LT may monitor and/or participate in the development of standardised educational licensing practice.
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The Workshop considers undertaking the creation of a standardised licensing model adapted for European conditions – both cultural and legislative. From the range of standard licensing models currently available the Creative Commons appears at present to have most momentum and acceptability among the broader educational communities. It would be worth considering the Creative Commons model as the basis for working towards a specifically European licence. Such a licence could combine the most useful and attractive elements of licences such as the Creative Commons and, in a European context, might address the following issues:
- Transparency and simplicity – for example through the use of clearly written, simple licences in user-friendly language and the use of easily recognisable symbols,
- Usability and consistency – for example by containing only a small range of standard licences,
- Searchability and interoperability – for example the expression of the licence metadata in machine-readable formats.
- Continuity – for example, by way of a supporting web site giving advice and developing a community of users and promoting the use of open licensing concepts
- Legality – taking account of common and disparate elements in European member states’ applicable legislation.
- Moral Rights – taking account of the separation between copyright and rights (which can be traded or waived) and authors’ continuing moral rights in some European jurisdictions.
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These contents have been obtained from the CEN/ISSS WS-LT Web site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the CEN/ISSS WS-LT for additional information on terms of use.
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| The Workshop has produced a report that has not been given a CWA status: Report on Educational Copyright License Conditions (PDF). |
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