[cc-education] educational use clause

Ben Crowell cceducrowell03 at lightandmatter.com
Wed Aug 27 21:43:41 EDT 2003


Zachary Chandler wrote:
 
>ZC: Others with whom I have discussed this issue have voiced a concern over
>marrying cc.edu to the institution. Is there a way to word the language so that
>it is more inclusive, without watering down its clarity and usefulness?
 
David Wiley wrote:
 
>This was something I very much wanted to do initially. However, as the
>legal people from Stanford Law looked at the literature / legal history
>of the word "educational," they "encouraged" me to stick with the
>traditional legal understanding of the term, which always involves an
>institution. We've tried hard to make the license as open as possible
>while still attached to the institution.
 
If the license won't fly legally without this onerous restriction, maybe
that's a sign that the license is a bad idea. I get a lot of nice e-mails
from home-schooling parents who are using my physics texts with their
kids. (And -- heh heh -- maybe their parents didn't notice the anti-creationist
diatribe tucked into that section of the optics text on the evolution of the
eye :-)
 
Who are the bad, evil non-educational users from whom authors need their
free information protected? If they exist, couldn't they be fended off using
a CC license with the no-commercial-use clause turned on?


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