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  • From: "Alexander, Bryan" <balexan AT middlebury.edu>
  • To: 'development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons' <cc-education AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [cc-education] educational use clause
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:44:58 -0400

Thank you, David, for the thoughtful and fast response.
"Individuals users would simply have to be attached to a qualifying
institutions in order to use the materials legally" - this is pretty clear,
and does build in some support for followup. i.e., if Bob wants to see if
student X7 is really using Bob's materials legitimately, then he can check
X7's institution.


Bryan Alexander
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Wiley [mailto:david AT wiley.ed.usu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:05 AM
To: development of an education license or license option for Creative
Commons
Subject: Re: [cc-education] educational use clause


Alexander, Bryan wrote:

> For one example, with admitted personal interest, is the Arab
> Culture and Civilization site we've created
> (_http://www.nitle.org/arabworld/_). It's not tied to any school, but
> to an umbrella group representing 81 colleges and universities,
> NITLE. Furthermore, most of the content was produced outside our
> group. The resource is sound, in terms of content and pedagogical
> design, we feel. Would this license be capable of application?
>
You could certainly license the material in this way. Remember the
license requirement to be tied to an institution is for the end user,
not the creator(s). In order to use the material legally, the end user
(faculty, TA, student, whatever) must be attached to an institution and
must be using the material in realtion to "the teaching and learning
activities" of the insitution.

> For another example, this month's widely-read Wired piece on
> OpenCourseWare
> (_http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit_pr.html_) draws our
> attention to non-institutionally-bound learning communities. Their
> initial materials are traditional, being MIT curricula. But what
> about materials they generate themselves?
>
Anyone can license material with cc.edu - individuals, faculty,
organizations, even corporations. The requirement to be attached to an
institution is placed on the end user of the material.

> And they are likely to swarm into communities of practice for
> learning. Would these instances have to consider themselves
> institutions in some way, in order to qualify?
>
No. Individuals users would simply have to be attached to a qualifying
institutions in order to use the materials legally.

This makes it very positive that OCW is licensed under the traditional
CC and not the cc.edu. Remember, (in my opinion) the goal of people who
want to increase access to educational opportunity is to have people
dedicate their educational materials to the public domain. If they won't
do that, it would be great if they would they would broadly license
their materials under the traditional cc. If they won't do that, it
would be great if they would license their material under cc.edu. cc.edu
is about reaching that next tier of people and increasing the amount of
overall materials available to support teaching and learning.

D

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