Basics of Swiss copyright law: use of protected work, copyright owners, protected rights, exceptions (private use, educational purposes, professional use, quotation, ect.).

This course focuses on the user perspective and gives users advice on how they can use a specific work.

The exception “Private use for educational purposes” and its limits, the role of Collecting Societies and Joint Tariffs, the Open Educational Resources.

Contractual obligations and rights of authors and publishers, including second publication right; funder's requirements; how to publish as OA; what is possible to negotiate when different interests are involved.

Principles of public licenses with a particular focus on CC licenses; differences between public domain, copyleft, the 6 CC licenses and their 4 clauses (BY, SA, ND, NC).

Software copyright protection and licensing; differences between Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative, proprietary and permissive licenses, strong and weak copyleft.

Basics of privacy and Swiss data protection law; differences between the old and the new Swiss legislation (which entered into force 1.9.2023).

Privacy at school: what should teachers consider when processing students' personal data; when and how should informed consent be obtained.

Privacy and data protection law applied in the academic and research context; informed consent and anonymization; making research data freely accessible and re-usable.

The legal framework, including both copyright and data protection, governing the distribution of research data online.

Copyright and data protection aspects when using social media (social media's terms and conditions; informed consent; license to use; text & data mining; etc.).