Thread:Licensing practicalities (2)

The principle of engagement for OERu courses is that course materials will be licensed under free cultural works approved licenses or dedicated to the public domain. In practice this means Public domain declaration, CC-0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, or the GNU FDL.

It is possible for course developers to link to open access materials in their courses which may not meet the requirements of free cultural works approved content. (Course developers should assess the risks associated with enclosure and/or host site changing the terms of usage.)

1) Regarding images, when uploading images the wiki provides for all the metadata requirements regarding attribution and licensing. The correct convention is to provide the licensing metadata in the image page and not on the content page where the image is displayed. See for example the metadata on this image: http://wikieducator.org/File:Village_school_in_Northern_Bahr_el_Ghazal,_Sudan.jpg. If images are sourced on the Wikimedia commons metadata is automatically included in the image.

2) Yes, in theory modifications can continue ad infinitum -- the legal obligation is to acknowledge the immediate parent source, not all that went before.

3)Correct, all images should use free cultural works approved licenses. However, there are exceptions. Organisational logos usually copyrighted and/or may be trademarked. Where the logo is used for the visual identify of an organisation, this is done under "fair dealing" or in accordance with the trademark provisions. See for example the Creative Commons Logo: http://wikieducator.org/File:Cc.logo.svg.