Session 6 -
Administering Open Content:
Organisational
implications
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Michael Fraser,
CEO Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
Issues for Rights Management Organisations
Copyright Agency Limited is
a not-for-profit, rights management company that administers
the statutory educational
and government licences as well as voluntary licences established
for the benefit of a broad range of creators, consumers and
other stakeholders. Technological advances, such as digital
rights management tools, are making it easier to search for,
access and pay copyright owners for content. As new forms
of communication develop, rightsholders have an incentive
to develop systems that provide widespread access and remuneration
for their creative effort. Michael Fraser, CAL CEO, will
discuss CAL’s online projects and other developments
in technology that are making content more available while
balancing creator rights.
Michael Fraser established the office of the Copyright Agency
Limited (CAL), Australia in 1986. A copyright lawyer, he
is Chief Executive Officer of CAL and Vice-President of
the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations
(IFRRO). Michael Fraser is also chairman of IFRRO’s
Asia-Pacific Committee, chairman of IFRRO’s Membership
Committee and speaks at conferences on behalf of IFRRO
and at the invitation of the World Intellectual Property
Organisation.
Michael is a former Chairman of the Australian
National Book Council, was a founding partner of the Interoperability
of
Data in E-Commerce Framework Company (INDECS) in 1998,
and was a Director of the Hong Kong Reprographic Rights
Licensing
Society from 1995 to 2001. He was a founding director of
the Centre for Copyright Studies, current member of
the Copyright Society, member of the Committee of Management
of the Australian Copyright Council, was a director of
the Arts Law Centre from 1997 - 2003, a director of the
International
Digital Object Identifier Foundation (IDF) since 2002 and
a member of the Law Council of Australia.
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Lisa Wood
Box Hill TAFE
Managing IP in Education
The VET sector in Victoria faces unique challenges in implementing
effective intellectual property policy and management and
adopting new models for sharing intellectual property. Lisa
will discuss the benefits of an ‘open content’ or ‘commons’ approach
to the VET sector and some of the challenges to implementing
such models at an institutional level.
Lisa
Wood is the Intellectual Property Officer at Box Hill Institute
in Victoria. She is responsible for the administration
of the educational statutory licenses
at
the Institute and provides advice in relation to intellectual property policy
and management. Lisa is a law graduate with a particular interest in copyright
law
and believes that models for the sharing of IP are critical to access and equity
in education. Working in the VET sector has provided an opportunity to consider
how such models might be incorporated into institutional practice and the cultural
shifts required.
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Content Creators
- How do you find open content? [tba]
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Sheila
Fitzgerald
Executive Director, TAFE frontiers
Using electronic publishing strategies in Education
This session will cover:
- TAFE frontiers rationale for licensing and the models
that we use
- The ways in which license holders use TAFE frontiers
products
- How we see the future of licensing and the ways in which
the development of learning materials
will need to change to accommodate these needs
- The underpinning e-commerce and publishing systems
TAFE frontiers is using (and will use
in the future) to support
licensing and customisation of
learning materials.
Sheila Fitzgerald is an experienced educator
having worked in schools and TAFE for over 20 years. She
has worked in teaching and non-teaching roles and has managed
a large support area. Sheila has been the Executive
Director of TAFE frontiers since it started in August 1999, this role has provided
the opportunity to bring together all of the aspects of teaching, learning
and management that she is passionate about.
TAFE frontiers is a Victorian
government funded agency which provides flexible
learning support and development services to all providers in the Victorian
VET sector. It focuses on professional development, research and learning
materials development and has explored creative and innovative
ways to support the VET
system in Victoria to improve delivery and make the learning experience better
for learners.
Sheila completed a Flexible Learning Leader project in
2003 which explored future models for sustainable VET organisations. She believes that increasingly
providers need to see themselves as knowledge generation businesses that are
able to leverage their organisational knowledge and capacity to generate improved
outcomes for learners.
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Session Chair:
Jennifer Dunbabin, Communications Officer
Australian Flexible Learning Framework
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