Teaching future researchers about Creative Commons licenses

Mia Garlick, Getting a Reasonable IP Education, Creative Commons Blog, September 28, 2005. Excerpt:
A lecture on Creative Commons will form part of the induction training programme for incoming graduate research students at Goldsmith's College, University of London, this week. Andrea Rota, who is a member of the Liquid Culture project at Goldsmith's College, will be giving the lecture on "A range of protections and freedoms for researchers, authors and artists" as part of the scheduled activities for new graduate research students in induction week. Of course, the lecture materials themselves are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. The induction training programme includes sessions dedicated to copyright and IP issues for research students....A welcome initiative bringing balance back into education about intellectual property issues.

(PS: This is a great idea. All graduate departments ought to have a similar workshop on open access, focusing on how OA helps authors and how authors can provide it for their own work.)

Source: P Suber Open Access News Blog (28 September 2005) [FullText]