development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Heather Ford <hford AT csli.stanford.edu>]

I really like your wording, David - I think that giving the choice to the 
users as to what they think of when they wish to dedicate works is the best 
plan here - especially since we can't really agree here and since we can 
revisit the license again after we have seen how people are using the license.

On another point, is there the option of just stating that you can make use 
of materials as long as they are used within the context of education i.e. 
that education is the primary purpose of the communication - rather than 
assigning the right to particular people within the institution?

Best,

Heather.

At 09:02 AM 2/6/2004, you wrote:
> Hello all. There have only been a handful of responses to the last email. 
> I hope people won't feel offended or that I'm jumping the gun by offering 
> draft language with so few responses, but we are working on a schedule.
>
> As context for the draft below, please take a moment to look at the format 
> of CC's new Sampling License - http://creativecommons.org/license/sampling 
> - I've made a conscious effort to make our draft similar in structure and 
> style. There is some discussion below the draft.
>
> <DRAFT LANGUAGE>
>
> If you make your work available under the Education License, you require 
> that users of your work:
>
>  - Cite you as the source of the work per standard academic practices,
>
>  - Make only noncommercial uses of your work which primarily and 
> purposively facilitate learning, and
>
>  - Distribute any modified versions of your work
>
>     + under this same license, and
>     + include in the distribution a copy of the original work which 
> allows users to determine what changes you made to the derived work 
> (inclusion by link / reference is sufficient)
>
> Do you want to:
>
> Allow teachers, students, and others directly associated with a formal 
> educational institution, as well as mentors, tutors, self-learners, and 
> others who may not be directly associated with a formal educational 
> institution, to make permitted uses of your work?
>
>  - Yes
>
>  - No, I want to restrict use of my work to only teachers, students, and 
> others directly associated with a formal educational institution.
>
> </DRAFT>
>
> This license is sort of a "By-NC-SA Plus" license. The three pluses are 
> (1) noncommercial uses are not sufficient - uses must be noncommercial AND 
> primarily facilitate learning, (2) a mechanism is imposed that establishes 
> accountability for for the creation of derivative works.
>
> (3) is the big one. Rather than decide for the user whether to stick to 
> formal educational institutions or not, the draft language passes the 
> decision on to the user. This choice in effect creates two education 
> licenses. You will see at http://creativecommons.org/projects/sampling 
> that the Sampling licence takes two forms because of a similar option, 
> with two distinct license names and two separate icons. I propose that we 
> call one license the Open Education license, and the other the Formal 
> Education License, and that we also use two separate icons to keep clear 
> in users minds' which is which.
>
>
> So, feedback please. Remember we're trying to arrive at a draft by next 
> Wednesday. Thanks for your blood, sweat, and tears on this,
>
> David
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