Copyrights, Copywrongs, and the Creative Commons

These are materials used for a Doing It Together Science (DITOs http://www.togetherscience.eu/) learning workshop on the topic of copyright and the Creative Commons held at University College London on 30 March 2017. The workshop started with an outside activity where participants took photos with their smartphones of things in the surrounding area. They then swapped phones and tried to look for the things that people have photographed. Next, the documentary Everything is a Remix (http://everythingisaremix.info/) was screened. The film discussed the fundamental nature of creativity, how new creations are always built on existing works, and the problem with copyright and patent laws today. This was followed by a discussion with examples as shown in the presentation slides attached (saved by Microsoft Powerpoint 2016 as Strict OOXML format), including how the non-profit organisation Creative Commons developed a series of licenses to encourage sharing and remixing. The handout (also attached as ODT and PDF versions) contains further information on the topics covered.The open source fonts Liberation Serif (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts) and Metropolis (https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/metropolis) were used for the handout and presentation. Please install them before editing