development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[David Wiley <david.wiley AT usu.edu>]

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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