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Subject: development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

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  • From: Steve Foerster <steve AT chrysology.com>
  • To: cc-education AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [cc-education] Potentially blasphemous suggestion
  • Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:43:46 -0500

As I recall, one of the assumptions behind deploying an "education license" was that there's something in particular of which people automatically think when they hear the term.

It's clear now, however, that this isn't so. Some people think that it ought to prevent commercial use, while others do not. Some people think that it ought to restrict use of the licensed material to formal educational institutions, while others do not -- and worse, the definition of such institutions will either be a compromise that fails to please everyone or else so watered down as to be meaningless.

If it's the case that there's no obvious set of characteristics that an educational license should have, wouldn't it be better to forgo one altogether rather than introduce one that people might unthinkingly use that doesn't actually meet their objectives?

Besides, shouldn't people who are developing educational materials be capable of using the "Educators' and Scholars'" interface?

http://creativecommons.org/learn/artistscorners/educators

I mean, the interface isn't exactly brain surgery -- CC did a good job of making it easy to use, why not just let educators use it rather than shoehorn them into a one-size-doesn't-really-fit-all license?

-=Steve=-




  • [cc-education] Potentially blasphemous suggestion, Steve Foerster, 02/08/2004

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