These slides are one half of a joint presentation made by Dr Louise Crowley and me at a Teaching and learning Seminar, University College Cork, November 2012. This part was prepared and presented by me (Darius Whelan). Video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPse4z6LLMk.

1. Darius Whelan and Louise Crowley
Faculty of Law, UCC
Ionad Bairre Seminar, 8 Nov. 2012
Copyright Law in the Educational
Context
Part 2
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2. Epigeum – Teaching and
Learning with Technology -
Class 5 – Developing Course
Content (2009)
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3. Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Free and openly licensed educational materials that can
be used for teaching, learning and research
• Supported, for example, by UNESCO
• Various examples – MIT OpenCourseware; OER Commons;
WikiEducator
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including
Coursera
• Ireland – National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR)
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7. What is Creative Commons?
• Non-profit corporation based in California
• Founded on notion that some people may not want to exercise all of
the intellectual property rights the law affords them.
• Believes there is an unmet demand for an easy yet reliable way to tell
the world "Some rights reserved" or even "No rights reserved."
• Many people want to share their work - and the power to reuse,
modify, and distribute their work - with others on generous terms.
• Creative Commons intends to help people express this preference for
sharing by offering the world a set of licenses on its site, at no
charge.
• UCC Law Faculty is Irish Partner
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14. Advanced Search on Flickr……
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15. • To download picture, select Actions > View all
sizes
• Choose the size you want and then choose
‘download’
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16. Other sites with Creative Commons material
• YouTube
• Google Advanced Search – see ‘usage
rights’ section
• Google Images Advanced Search
• Europeana
• search.creativecommons.org
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17. Important to attribute work
• Samples from Slideshare
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21. Copyright Review Committee
•Dr Eoin O’Dell, TCD
•Patricia McGovern, Solicitor
•Professor Steve Hedley, UCC
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22. • Consultation Paper issued Feb. 2012
• Examples of general questions raised:
– Does copyright law inhibit the work of innovation
intermediaries?
– Should a broad fair use doctrine be adopted?
– Should all of the exceptions permitted by the EU
Copyright Directive be incorporated into Irish law?
– Should a Copyright Council of Ireland be
established?
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23. • Paper also considers broadening Education
exceptions. See pp. 67-72.
• Various sections of Act which refer to “research or
private study” could be amended to state
“education, research or private study”
• Paper considers possible new sections on
– Illustrations for education
– Distance learning
– Use by educational establishment of work available
through the internet
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24. • Paper considers Text Mining and Data Mining
– Data Mining: Establishing patterns in large data
sets
– Text mining: deriving high-quality information
from text through means such as statistical
pattern learning
• Proposes specific exception for text mining
and data mining
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26. • Robert Clark, Shane Smyth and Niamh Hall,
Intellectual Property Law in Ireland, 3rd ed. (2010)
• Legislation and Cases – 3 UCC sites:
– www.bailii.org
– www.irlii.org
– www.irishlaw.org
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27. Credits:
Slide 2 – Epigeum Ltd.
Slide 17 – photo CC BY martinak15 from Flickr
Slide 21 – CC BY NC SA Eoin O’Dell; UCC Faculty of Law;
DFMGsolicitors.ie
This slide – photo CC BY dbrekke from Flickr
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