National Education Network (Case study)
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OVERVIEW
This case study, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance as part of its IPR Toolkit is one of seven forming an analysis of publicly funded e-content initiatives, which demonstrate the flow of content, value and rights across the respective seven representatives of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) sponsors. The IPR Case Studies report co-ordinated by NaomiKorn Consulting is addressed to senior decision makers across public-sector bodies and aims at providing a coherent account of best practices of managing publicly funded e-content. It is licenced for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
Background
The National Education Network (NEN) is the UK collaborative network for education providing schools with a secure network designed and maintained by experts within the educational community. The NEN Gallery is a collection of high quality images, sound and video files that can be repurposed by teachers and students. All the materials can be used for educational, not for profit activities. Registered users can also upload images, sound and video files to the ‘NEN Gallery’ for use by other members of the educational community.
Related to the “NEN Gallery” project is the Repurpose, Create and Share pilot programme, which ran from the Spring 2007 to August 2008. The project was funded by Becta and managed on a project basis with schools selected through a formal proposal process. Support is provided for each of the school-based projects. The aim of this programme is to build capacity, knowledge and skills around the embedding of digital resources into learning and teaching materials for the benefit of learning outcomes.
Both projects employ the NEN infrastructure and aim at the re-use and linking of various forms of content as well as the management of different layers of rights subsisting on the same work. The issues outlined below are shared by both projects. Where there are any differentiations, these are clearly demarcated.
Key content features
Multiple types of content: images, video, audio, documents (literary works), diagrams (graphical works) and compilations of content.
Value gains
- Increase access to educational material.
- Foster incremental innovation and development of educational material.
- Build communities of educational material producers.
- Reduce redundancy costs by reusing content and thus not having to reinvent the wheel.
- Improve the educational experience.
- Provide flexibility in the ways in which resources can be used by both learners and teachers.
- Serve education personalization and active learning agendas.
- Improve efficiency gains to be had from sharing learning materials with other schools.
- Raise awareness of the range of freely available online digital resources.
- Encourage greater collaboration in the creation of more interactive, engaging learning materials.
- Provide BECTA and the NEN with information about what encourages and enables teachers to repurpose and share digital learning materials.
Rights ownership and obtained permissions
- NEN Gallery project: no licences or rights are obtained by the project. The content that is uploaded on the system is accompanied by a notice stating that all the copyrights remain with the original rights holder. The person uploading the content takes responsibility for licensing its use directly to the users of the service.
- Repurpose project: All the IPR in the content that is produced by school teachers is licensed to the school by including such a section in the teacher’s employment agreement. The copyright in the content produced by students is licensed by their parents through consent forms. Finally copyright by third parties is also licensed through specific licence agreements.
Terms of access and use
- NEN Gallery project: each user retains the copyright over the material she uploads, but agrees that the end user may use the material for personal, non-commercial or educational purposes. Further dissemination or alteration of the material is not allowed.
- Repurpose project: the content flows only between the members of a consortium that is established through a consortium agreement that also governs IPR licensing issues. Each consortium party provides the other parties with a licence allowing use of their content for the purposes of the project. Use of the content for commercial purposes or by third parties is left at the discretion of the individual consortium parties. All parties also license their IPR to the Lead institution to the extent that is necessary for it to fulfil its obligations and to further license the content to Becta.
Links to IPR Toolkit Resources as PDFs
Background papers
Reports
Practical tools
3.4 Top Tips for Issuing Licences
3.5 Top Tips for Requesting Licences
3.8 Template Email Permissions Form
3.9 IPR Template Permission Letter
3.10 Rights Management Template
3.12 Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Staff
3.13 Example Consortium Agreement
3.14 Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Students/Volunteers
3.15 Model contractual clauses for requesting permission from freelancers/subcontractors
3.16 Template Terms and Conditions of Service
Template policy statements
2.1 Draft Institutional IPR Policy Statements
2.2 IPR and Licensing Blue Print for Funding Bodies and Recipients of Funding
Related Digipedia links
IPR policy statement for the public sector
Orphan works and risk management
Web 2.0 and legal issues factsheet
Further information
General resources
Intellectual Property Office: Overview of the legislative framework and policy issues/developments regarding Intellectual Property Rights
Office for Public Sector Information: Information about Crown Copyright material, click use licence for reusing Crown Copyright material and access to the consolidated copyright legislation.
British Library Business and IP Centre: Provision of resources, support and advice relating to the creation and exploitation of IP within a business context
Licensing schemes and open content licensing initiatives
Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
Resources for health professionals
Resources for schools, colleges and universities
JISC Digital Media Online Image Finding Tutorial: Interactive tool providing information about how to find images online which can be used with the least amount of restrictions
Web2Rights Project: JISC funded project providing interactive copyright and other legal issues tools, resources and charts for use by JISC funded projects
JISC Casper: Interactive tools and associated resources for dealing with copyright issues in schools and projects who are reusing content
JISC IPR and Web2.0 Animation: IPR and Web2.0 animation commissioned by JISC and built around the Web2Rights project deliverables
Becta: Information about IPR for schools
JISC IPR Consultancy: Briefing documents about IPR and monthly IPR Newsletter
JISC Open Content Licences Overview Paper: Overview paper providing guidance about the use of open content licences for JISC funded projects
JISC Model Licence Interactive: Interactive tool which provides an overview of the benefits of the JISC Model Licence
TrustDR Project: JISC funded project providing supporting documentation relating to the establishment of a digital rights management system for repositories
JISC Legal: Support for HEIs and FEIs on legal issues
OSS Watch: Support for HEIs and FEIs on open source licences
Resources for the cultural heritage sector
Collections Link: Comprehensive resources relating to IP and licensing for cultural heritage bodies
Harvested links
- Copyright Essentials
- A Collections Trust factsheet providing an introduction to copyright law for the non-specialist collections manager. [?]
- Training Course: Copyright Essentials
- This training course provided by Museums Galleries Scotland offers an introduction to the principles of copyright within the context of caring for collections. It offers basic and practical training, [?]
- New guide to copyright for cultural heritage organisations
- The Collections Trust is delighted to announce the publication of a new guide to copyright for cultural heritage organisations. [?]
- Collections Management Network website
- Collections Management Network (CMNetwork) is a consortium of consultants, advisers and trainers with expertise in collections management. We work together to provide practical, authoritative, cost ef [?] <span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1287584946184_396" />
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