How to share your learning and teaching resources

The Learning Object Repository is located at elibrary.utas.edu.au/lor

Currently, any UTAS staff member can browse for contributed items in the repository. However, only project participants are able to contribute items to the repository. Pending the successful completion of the project's pilot phase, we hope to open the learning object repository for contributions by all UTAS staff. To register your interest, please email sharing.project@utas.edu.au.

Project participants will find help information and examples available in-context through the contribution process. Additional information can be found below, and/or project participants can contact sharing.project@utas.edu.au for more help at any time.

Extended Help

Keywords

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Resources and Objects

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Software requirements

You may copy and paste any of the following descriptions into the Software requirements field when you contribute or edit your learning object. The links will work in the Learning Object Repository if you paste them as the web addresses unchanged.

Copyright ownership and rights

General rules about rights in copyright material

In the first instance the copyright owner holds all copyright rights (except Moral Rights which are retained exclusively by authors, makers and performers) in the copyright material they own. Copyright provides owners with exclusive rights to copy, modify or adapt, publish, perform in public and to communicate their copyright material. However, a copyright owner may licence or assign some or all of these rights to another person.

The owner of the copyright in works such as books, screenplays, paintings and musical scores will generally be the author, unless there is an agreement to the contrary. The Author is generally considered to be the person who put the work in a material form (e.g. the writer, artist, composer, etc.).

The owner of the copyright in sound recordings, films and broadcasts will generally be the maker, unless there is an agreement to the contrary. For example the person:

• who owns the media on which a sound recording is first embodied will be the owner of copyright in that sound recording;
• who arranged for a film to be made (the producer) will be the owner of copyright in that film; and
• who made the broadcast (the broadcaster) will be the owner of copyright in that broadcast.

Educational resources created during the course of employment at UTAS

The University's Intellectual Property Ordinance does not automatically assign any intellectual property. Copyright is a form of Intellectual Property that is created by employees and could be owned by the employee, or owned jointly with other creators from the university or other institutions, depending on the circumstances of its creation. There are a number of ways in which employee-created intellectual property might be assigned to the University. The most likely scenario is an employee's employment contract contains a clause which assigns certain intellectual property created by the employee to the University. Intellectual property created in the course of an employee's employment duties can also be assigned to the University by statute or implication of law (but note that in each case this will depend on what the employee is employed to do).

Joint Ownership

Joint ownership of copyright material may arise where:

• Two or more creators have contributed to the creation of the one work; or 
• Where there is an agreement that copyright will be jointly owned. This might occur where staff from different institutions or organisations create individual learning objects which together make a course pack, and it is agreed that the staff (or their institutions) will own copyright in the course pack jointly. 

Joint ownership of copyright material does not automatically give one joint owner the right to deal with the copyright material to the exclusion of the other joint owners. Permission may still need to be sought from all joint owners to, for example, openly publish jointly owned copyright material. This would be the case if the right to openly publish the material cannot be implied from the circumstances of its creation, or if no agreement was in place between the joint owners regarding open publication. 

Applying licenses to learning objects

Staff can apply licences to content they create during the course of their employment if: 

1. Copyright is retained by the staff member/s or UTAS.
   If copyright is retained by the staff member or UTAS then they may apply a licence; and
2. There are no other conditions, contracts or other circumstances precluding the content being released under a particular licence.
   For example funding or other contractual obligations related to the learning object may preclude you from licensing the object in certain ways. Another example is where someone else's copyright material has been included in the learning object and permission is required to licence it for further use.

If you would like more information about applying licenses to learning objects please contact the University's Copyright Officer.

Peer Review of Learning Objects

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