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  • From: David Wiley <david AT wiley.ed.usu.edu>
  • To: development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons <cc-education AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-education] visible case of .edu IP
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:09:22 -0600

Ben Crowell wrote:

This seems like a good example of how unnecessary a cc.edu license is.
If this use was undesirable, it could be prevented with a CC license
containing the no-commercial-use clause.

The MIT/OCW CC license does have a noncommercial clause (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm). That's why "they can't do that!"

afford. (And BTW, this guy is a private tutor, so he would have been
shut out by the proposed cc.edu license, which requires an affiliation
with an educational institution.)

This is an interesting assertion, and one which might require an adjustment of the language of the license. If the students are affiliated with an institution but the tutor is not, then it would be legal for the students to use the materials but not the tutor. So perhaps the language should be altered to focus on facilitating the learning of students associated with an institution (and not teaching). This would allow community center volunteers, etc., to use materials legally with students.

However, your tutor might be discounted from using MIT and other standard cc licensed materials already by the noncommercial clause, in which case cc.edu wouldn't be a separate issue.

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