development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

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

tom poe wrote:

> Hi:  How does this fit with technology transfer departments within
> educational institutions?
>  
Excellent question. From my experience this requires two things (I'm 
going through the negotiation process right now with our Tech Transfer 
office now). First, is a defensible agreement / license (which I think 
cc.edu is shaping up to be). Second is explicit agreement up front from 
TTO that it's "permissable" to license things in this manner. Our 
current case is easy, since the funding organization says "Either it's 
all completely free and open or you don't get any money." In other 
circumstances the negotiation might be more difficult. It will all 
depend on your particular university's policy toward intellectual 
property... If your U says you own course materials you develop, etc., 
then as the owner you can license them however you want. Or the 
enlightened institution might even pull an MIT and make an 
institution-wide committment to CC everything (ocw.mit.edu). Others 
might take more draconian approaches.

D