development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

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

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.

D