[cc-education] A Second Proposal
David Wiley
david.wiley at usu.edu
Mon Aug 25 12:24:37 EDT 2003
tom poe wrote:
>Hi: How does this fit with technology transfer departments within
>educational institutions?
>
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Excellent question. From my experience this requires two things (I'm
going through the negotiation process right now with our Tech Transfer
office now). First, is a defensible agreement / license (which I think
cc.edu is shaping up to be). Second is explicit agreement up front from
TTO that it's "permissable" to license things in this manner. Our
current case is easy, since the funding organization says "Either it's
all completely free and open or you don't get any money." In other
circumstances the negotiation might be more difficult. It will all
depend on your particular university's policy toward intellectual
property... If your U says you own course materials you develop, etc.,
then as the owner you can license them however you want. Or the
enlightened institution might even pull an MIT and make an
institution-wide committment to CC everything (ocw.mit.edu). Others
might take more draconian approaches.
D
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