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Subject: development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

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  • From: David Wiley <david.wiley AT usu.edu>
  • To: development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons <cc-education AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-education] Orange
  • Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:29:12 -0600

In the years I spent working on the Open Publication License, the biggest complaint we ever had was people not knowing how to represent which options they had invoked (none, A, or B) when stating that a work was OPL'ed. Wouter's, Miller's, and others' points about confusion caused by a single icon that represents many things is an excellent one. And in hindsight, it's kind of hard to believe that CC has made the same mistake we did 4 years ago. I'm sure there will be some discussion about this further up the tree from us.As things stand, with three options in the infrastructure, they'll need eight seperately colored icons just to cover the possible "licenses" which can be created using the attribution, commercial use, and derivative work options, not to mention the pudblic domain, founders' and other projects...

So there seems to be a feeling that cc.edu should lead out in this particular area and just be a license unto itself, with a different colored icon. I am easily swayed that a seperate license is a good idea when I remember the pain caused by the OPL options. Whether or not we can get an orange or blue or gold icon will be up to whoever manages marketing issues for CC, I guess.

So I'll propose the following configuration for a standalone cc.edu license:

- Require educational use as per the education use clause drafted and discussed on this list,

- Require attribution as per the present option in the standard CC infrastructure (because academics expect citations and references),

- Disallow commercial use as per the present option in the standard CC infrastructure (because this is what educational licenses intuitively mean to most people), and

- Allow modifications of your work as long as others share alike as per the present option in the standard CC infrastructure (because this is the spirit of teaching and learning -- passing on what you know to others who build upon and improve it).

What do you think?

D

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