External resources
Copyright in education and Open Access
Open Access
- Budapest Open Access Initiative (Declaration released on 14.02.2002)
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (published on 22.10.2003; list of signatories)
Publishing and second publication right
Swiss websites / ressources
- Handout on self-archiving rights, in German, made by Open Science Services, Universität Zürich Universitätsbibliothek
- Scientific article providing arguments in favor of the law (art. 382 para 3 Swiss Code of Obligations, which sets an embargo period of three months for scientific articles) prevailing over a publishing contract: Grégoire Geissbühler, L’Open Access dans le Code des obligations, in : Jusletter 17 mai 2021
International websites / ressources
- A comparison between the second publication right in several EU countries and the Italian attempt to introduce it: webinar recording made by reCreating Europe, project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
- A checklist-tool to discover what you need to know when assessing whether or not a publisher is suitable for your research
Creative Commons licenses
Video resources
Creative Commons licences explained
Creative Commons – what, how, why
How to use CC to find free images, audio and video
Swiss Websites / Resources
- Creative Commons Switzerland (www.creativecommons.ch)
International Websites
- Creative Commons International Website (creativecommons.org)
- CC License chooser
- CC Search – Find content you can share, use and remix
- Find images licensed under CC (Creative Commons pictures on Flickr)
- Find music licensed under CC
- Creative commons license spectrum between public domain (top) and all rights reserved (bottom): see image
Free and Open Source Software Licenses
Introduction Videos
What is Open Source Software (by Brian Daigle)
Definitions of Free & Open Source Software
- The free software definition – what is free software
- The open source software definition – what is open source software
- What’s the difference between open source software and free software? (opensource.com)
- Why “Free Software” is better than “Open Source” (on gnu.org – by Free Software Foundation)
Free and Open Source Software Licenses
- Choose an open source license
- List of all free software licenses
- List of all open source software licenses
Copyright and Data protection
UNESCO’s first global guidance on GenAI in education, published on the 7th of September 2023.
Other resources related to Copyright
Legislation
- Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (entry in force: 01.04.2020)
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (as amended on September 28, 1979)
- European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (entry in force: 07.06.2019)
Copyright in general
Swiss websites / resources:
- 9 Videos on YouTube, in German, made by Prof. Dr. Alfred Früh, Universität Basel, Juristische Fakultät, Zentrum für Life Sciences-Recht
International websites / resources:
- The History and Philosophy of Copyright, made by John P. Hess – FilmmakerIQ
Plagiarism
Swiss Websites / Resources:
- Quotation Rules / Zitier-Knigge (by ETH Zürich) – in German
- Information sheet “Plagiarism – Prävention and Measures” / Merkblatt “Plagiate – Prävention und Massnahmen” (by University Luzern) – in German
International websites / resources:
- All you need to know about plagiarism (www.plagiarism.org)
- European Network for Academic Integrity (www.academicintegrity.eu)
- Plagiarism prevention project of the University of Konstanz
- Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice – Memorandum by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – in German/English
- Video on YouTube Acceptable/Unacceptable, produced by the Office of Student Judicial Affairs, University of Alberta, and Townend Films, in English
- Video on YouTube, Times I Plagiarized, TheOdd1sOut, in English
- Brigitte Simonnot, « Le plagiat universitaire, seulement une question d’éthique ? », Questions de communication [En ligne], 26 | 2014, mis en ligne le 31 décembre 2014, consulté le 26 septembre 2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/questionsdecommunication/9304 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/questionsdecommunication.9304
Publishing on Social Media
Swiss websites / resources:
- Posten, Liken, Sharen – Urheberrecht in sozialen Netzwerken (by Andreas Heinemann / Beat Althaus in www.jusletter.ch), in German
- Social Media und Recht: ein zwiespältiges Verhältnis (by Evelyn Ruckstuhl – report from a class of the CAS Social Media Management of the HWZ), in German
International websites / resources:
- The art of posting: social media, copyright and artist attribution (Internet Law Bulletin, article by Clara Edwards), in English
- Photo Sharing on Social Media & Copyright Infringement: What You Need to Know (by Amanda G. Ciccatelli – article on IPWatchdog), in English
Data Protection
Legislation
- Federal Act on Data Protection (entry in force: 01.09.2023)
- European General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR (entry in force: 28.05.2018)
- Digital Services Act (entry in force: 16.11.2022)
Useful resources