I have come across four interesting posts about sharing this week.
The Open Cloud Initiative
A Code of Practice for the Fair Use of Online Video
ALISS’s 2011 Summer Conference
An interview with Sir John Daniel
I thought all four offered excellent insights into the disposition to share openly.
The Open Source Initiative defines Open Source licensing in relation to:
- Free Redistribution
- Source Code
- Derived Works
- Integrity of the Author’s Source Code
- No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
- No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
- Distribution of License
- License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
- License Must Not Restrict Other Software
- License Must Be Technology-Neutral
Sir John Daniel suggests in his interview with Creative Commons that in relation to licensing of Open Educational Resources “My advice is to just do it and don’t get too fussed about the license at the beginning”. He adds that “our policy simply says COL will release its own materials under the most feasible open license, which includes the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license … we encourage people to not use noncommercial if they can avoid it, and we follow our own recommendation.”
The Centre for Social Media’s Guide to Fair Use “is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.”
I thought the ALISS report of the 2011 Conference on the topic of Social Media, Libraries, Librarians and Research Support exemplified this disposition to share openly. In addition to links on the conference site, papers from the conference are available on SlideShare. I liked the range of resources available.
As an aside each of the alerts to these four items came from different sources. This in itself exemplifies for me of the power of self-organising groups and networks.
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