development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[David Wiley <dw2 AT opencontent.org>]

<minor rant>
Anyone who knows the research we've been doing for the last several 
years knows that my group and I are all about informal learning. Every 
funded research project we have going right now is significantly, if not 
completely, concerned with informal learning targeting underserved 
populations. The name of the group is "Open Sustainable Learning 
Opportunity"for goodness sake. I want informal learning to be available 
via the license as much if not more than anyone else on the list. 
Personal attacks that accuse me of promoting "class victimization" are 
either severely uninformed or simply dishonest. I wish we could get on 
with the business of the list. For example,
</rant>

Survey respondents said they thought an educational use license would 
give them rights to make only educational and research related uses of 
materials, but that these uses need not be restricted to those carried 
out in formal educational settings (thanks to Stephen for helping me see 
this more clearly). I believe that the most productive thing for us to 
do, as list members, is to draft language that expresses a restricion on 
use to educational and research purposes without invoking the notion of 
a formal educational institution. As much as members of this list enjoy 
writing, I would think we could get some excellent drafts laid on the 
table in fairly short order. =)

Let's take a week and see how many draft clauses we can gather together. 
Next Thursday we'll start discussing their relavtive merits. I'll try to 
make sure that one of lawyers CC has so graciously donated to our cause 
is listening in.

If you believe there is something more productive we could be doing than 
drafting this language (e.g., doing the survey again), let's hear it.

David