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Item Data and Copyright(2016-11-16) Lyon, Colleen; University of Texas at AustinThis session provides attendees with an overview of copyright as it relates to data. The presenter uses real life examples to help demonstrate the complexity of intellectual property data issues.Item Held Captive by Copyright: Two Case Studies for Open Access(2015-04-27) Gushee, Elizabeth; Rushing, Amy; Harry Ransom Center; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas at AustinThe Harry Ransom Center is among the nation’s finest research libraries; its extensive holdings of manuscript, text, and visual materials provide a unique record of the creative processes of thousands of writers and artists. In 2014, with the goal of promoting the use of its collections, the Center’s Digital Initiatives Working Group (DIAG) was tasked with developing an open access policy for its corpus of materials believed to be in the public domain. As part of their work, DIWG surveyed open access strategies across peer institutions, struggled to determine where to place the Center on the open access continuum, debated the effects of open access on the Center’s human and financial resources, and, ultimately, found the process of identifying archival materials as “public domain” far more slippery than originally expected. In the fall of 2014, UTSA Libraries Special Collections held a department retreat to define strategic priorities for the year, and to discuss one of the thorniest issues facing repositories today: the permission to publish. Following a lawsuit against the University of Arkansas Special Collections and the subsequent urging of intellectual property guru Peter Hirtle that “it is time for repositories to get out of the "permission to publish" game and leave permissions to the copyright owner,” UTSA Special Collections decided to do just that. What we thought would remove barriers to our collections, however, has caused unanticipated issues regarding privacy, copyright, orphan works, and maintaining good donor relations. Learn how two libraries within The University of Texas system has grappled with issues of open access, copyright, and restrictions related to the use of their materials.Item Session 03C | Changing the Narrative with Pre-Service Teachers: From Copyright Restrictions to Creative Commons Permissions & OER(2021-03-11) Kohler, Karen; Millsap, PamelaThis presentation follows an academic librarian/faculty member partnership, formed with the original intent to instruct teacher candidates about copyright restrictions in education, as it transformed into a project involving development of online materials to familiarize pre-service teachers with the availability of openly licensed digital instructional content and to introduce them to selection and usage processes. Multiple iterations of an online tutorial paired with facilitated instruction, a grant-funded OER module creation effort, a forced shift to 100% online instruction due to COVID-19, and a research project involving education program students, all played roles in this metamorphosis. By the conference dates, the presenters will have preliminary data to share from their study of pre-service teachers' awareness of, and attitudes toward, openly licensed content for instructional uses in the classroom. Additionally, session attendees will leave with a list of resources on OER use in P-12 education and in teacher education programs.Item Session 09A | Lights, Camera, Action - Creating Engagement with OER Materials(2021-03-11) gosselin, richardThis workshop will examine the possibilities that OER materials have to offer in terms of finding suitable material, creating video, electronic flashcards, and other interactive student activities that will allow students to truly take charge of their own education. Participants will have hands-on opportunities to create for themselves beautiful and professionally-rendered products that they can be proud of and materials that students will actually use and come back to over and over again throughout the course of the semester and beyond. The workshop will also examine third-party software that does not require a license to use and is completely free to both the instructor and student alike. Moreover, it will also discuss dormant and abandoned copyright materials that have been entrusted to colleges, universities, and nonprofits and how to make good use of them in your courses.Item Session 17C | How Would You Teach if Copyright Wasn’t in the Way? Reimagining Open Education with the Best Practices in Fair Use and Fair Dealing for Open Education(2021-03-12) Jacob, Meredith; Turner, CherieThis session introduces the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use and Fair Dealing in Open Education and invites participants to explore the opportunities it creates. We will lead a discussion about the Code and walk through strategies for applying it to a variety of situations in creating and using OER. These will include common scenarios that are clearly permitted under fair use and fair dealing as well as edge cases that require special consideration.Item SHERPA/RoMEO Journals Beta 3.6(2011-06-08) Millington, Peter; University of NottinghamItem Strategies for Advancing Knowledge Through Copyright(Texas Digital Library, 2020-06-30) Mumma, CourtneyItem What's Behind Door Number 2? Discovering and Using Hidden APIs to Automate Repetitive Tasks(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Hoover, SusanAt my institution, we have been working on a project to digitize approximately 19,000 theses and dissertations from 1940 to 2010. We sorted these into three batches based on the copyright laws in effect at the year of publication. For the oldest and newest theses it was a straightforward task to determine copyright status. The interesting period is 1978 to 1988, for which we needed to check each of 3700 theses to see whether it had been registered in the copyright database. At an optimistic rate of one lookup per minute, we were still looking at a week and a half of person-time to check the copyright status of this batch. In this presentation I will show how I solved the volume problem by using browser developer tools to locate and explore an undocumented API on the copyright website and by creating a Ruby script to automate the copyright lookup. I will also show how I modified the lookup as I learned the quirks of the copyright website.