Nicole / Susan

The Working group should also be investigating the AEShareNet model.
http://www.aesharenet.com.au/

This was developed in Australia for the Vocational Education and Training
sector (roughly equivalent to the UK Further Education sector I think) but
the model has been developed to meet the needs of all sectors of education.
The ability for  organisations outside Australia to directly join and use
the AEShareNet licensing system is also under active consideration.

AEShareNet, like Creative Commons, has some standard sharing licences, but
also provide facilities for online negotiation of licences with specific
conditions between members.

Having been developed from the basis of Australian copyright law as well as
the needs of the education sector, I suspect AEShareNet is likely to be
more consistent with UK copyright law that the Creative Commons model.
(IANA(c)L but most Australian law is based on British models.)

It is also a functioning catalogue of educational resources (currently over
20,000 items) available for licensing. The catalogue has a data structure
based on Dublin Core and the EdNA metadata standard.

Regards
Jack Gilding


At 01:41 pm 17/09/03 +0100, Nicole Harris wrote:

>Hi Gerry
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>(sorry for cross-posting folks).
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>I am happy to say that JISC is actually on the ball with this
>one!  Creative Commons as a useful concept for UK HE and FE was
>investigated at an IPR event organised by the JISC back in
>May.  Information about the event can be found at:
><http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_event_ipr_may_03>http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_event_ipr_may_03.
>I would recommend the Creative Commons presentation and the work of the
>RoMEO project if you want to find out more (available on the event website).
>
>
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>As a result, a small working group has been established to take this
>forward:
><http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=ie_sharealike>http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=ie_sharealike.
>There are some very specific issues with translating this for use in the
>UK, specifically the difference between copyright law in the UK and the
>US, which the group are looking at.
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>
>
>Susan Eales, the X4L programme manager is co-ordinating these efforts, and
>I am merely acting as a proxy as I know that she is on her way to Greece
>for Libraries Without Walls as we speak!  Which leaves me with the
>question, why am I in London??  Sigh.
>
>
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>Can t really help with the football I m afraid.
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>Nicole
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gerry Graham
>Sent: 17 September 2003 13:05
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Copyright: Creative Commons
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>Hi there
>
>I'm looking into copyright statements that promote use and reuse. I came
>across the Creative Commons
>(<http://www.creativecommons.org/>http://www.creativecommons.org/), an
>organisation that is "devoted to expanding the range of creative work
>available for others to build upon and share." It does this by defining
>licenses that promote use and reuse. They claim to have "worked hard to
>craft the licenses to be enforceable in as many jurisdictions as possible"
>so in theory there shouldn't be a problem in the UK.
>
>I used the License chooser and ended up with
>a  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. It seems to do what I
>would want, to share, get recognition and encourage people to reuse as
>long as they don't make money out if it without my permission and that
>what they create is offered under the same license agreement.
>
>I found the site following a link from the article "Why We Should Share
>Learning Resources"
>(<http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/why_we_should_share.htm>http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/why_we_should_share.htm)
>which encourages the publishing of content under such a license.
>
>So my questions are:
>
>Has anyone else come across or used this site?
>
>It seems as though it would work here but can anyone spot any problem with
>it?
>
>Does anyone have any other ideas to do the same thing?
>
>Anyone think Celtic will win tonight? Obviously a time critical question ;-)
>
>Regards
>
>Gerry

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