Just out of this lively webinar, thanks @hofera and Open Oregon for making it available. The recording will appear sometime soon (with a lovely license statement) on the Open Oregon tagged archived webinars.
Jonathan’s information packed slides (come for the slides, stay for the fun footnotes) are available at https://poritz.net/j/share/AAaLLS.pdf.
He had a great opening exercise asking people to think or make quickly any kind of work that could be copyrightable (in the chat were shared some great haikus, todo lists, videos of cats). The whole idea was the way Jonathan makes it clear later that as soon as a work is put into a fixed medium, it is by default copyrighted.
I usually always go for a photo, instead I hastily drew my cup of coffee on my kitchen table.
Boom! its copyrighted, all rights reserved.
Until I add – Hand drawing of coffee cup by Alan Levine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
There’s much more to this session, including discussions of fair use, the difference between academic practice if citation and attribution required by licenses, the TASL approach to attribution,… plus Jonathan handled some very specific examples asked by the audience in chat.
I took note from the part where Jonathan described the importance of including in an attribution for a work that was modified the explanation of how it was changed as a derivative work. A participant asked for guidance on how detailed a description needs to be (an echo of previous discussions recently here in OEG Connect)
Again, this was a highly engaging webinar, thanks Open Oregon.