How keen are we to raise awareness about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) among Open Education Resource (OER) communities? As long as open means ‘free to use’, one may understand that IP is not relevant. “As long as it is available on the internet, it is free to use”, or “As long as it is for educational purposes, it is OK to use” are some of the claims that are most often given. IP concern is not so much about the IP of the OER itself, rather than the IP of the content used to create the OER. And all this content is IP protected in a way or another. (more…)