development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Zachary Chandler <zechandl AT colby.edu>]

response at the end:

Quoting David Wiley <david AT wiley.ed.usu.edu>:

> 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.

ZC: I admit, the fact that the edu clause applies to the end user and not the 
creator wasn't initially clear to me, although it seems like common sense 
now. 
Can we feature this distinction prominently in our human-readable description?

best,
Zach

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Zachary Chandler
Language Technology Consultant
Director, Language Resource Center
Colby College
Waterville, Maine 04901  
http://www.colby.edu/lrc/
zechandl AT colby.edu
207.872.3898