Selected Resources and Links

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The content in Section 2 drew on the following resources:

• Wikipedia: Copyright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

• Julien Hofman (2009) Introducing Copyright: A plain language guide to copyright in the 21st century. Commonwealth of Learning (COL). http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=312

• WIPO: Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary an d Artistic Works (1886). http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/index.html

• WIPO: Limitations and Exceptions. http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/limitations/index.html

• The African Copyright and Access to Knowledge Project. http://www.aca2k.org/

• Open.Michigan: License your Work. http://open.umich.edu/share/license

• University of the Witwatersrand: Copyright Guidelines for Staff & Students of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (WITS). http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=227586&sid=1883163

• Unesco/COL: A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources. http://www.oerafrica.org/ResourceResults/tabid/1562/mctl/Details/id/39016/Default.aspx

The content in Section 3 drew on the following resources:

• Creative Commons: About the Licenses. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

• Creative Commons (2011) What is Creative Commons? Half-page flyer. http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads

• MIT OCW: Interpretation of Non-Commercial. http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#noncomm

• Erik Möller (2006) The Case for Free Use: Reasons not to use a Creative Commons-NC license. In Open Source Jahrbuch 2006. http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/download/jb2006/chapter_06/osjb2006-06-02-en-moeller.pdf

• Creative Commons: CC Affiliate Network. http://creativecommons.org/international  

• Creative Commons: Monitor: Unported License Adoption. http://monitor.creativecommons.org/Unported

• Creative Commons (2009) Defining Non-Commercial. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial

• University of Michigan (2011) Mlibrary: Committed to Creative Commons and Compatibility. http://publishing.umich.edu/2011/04/13/mlibrary-creative-commons/

• Creative Commons Learn (2009) Why CC BY?  http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ccLearn_primer-Why_CC_BY.pdf

• • Creative Commons: Zero Waiver. http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/

The content in Section 4 drew on the following resources:

• The Higher Education Academy: Legal Aspects of OER. In Open Educational Resources infokit. https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/25308415/Legal%20Aspects%20of%20OER

• The Higher Education Academy: Intellectual Property Rights Considerations. In Open Educational Resources infokit. https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24838224/Intellectual%20Property%20Rights%20considerations

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