development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Zachary Chandler <zechandl AT colby.edu>]

David,

Great news. I had been wondering where cc.edu went since our voting round.
Thanks for your efforts on this project, and thanks also for making the 
process
as democratic and responsive as you have.

Philospohically I am still with the prevailing group consensus of by-nc-sa, 
the
copyleft and remix ethos that makes CC great. However, I have had another year
(or so) of working with faculty on creative projects, on my own small campaign
for spreading the word about creative commons. It's my duty to report that a
good portion of faculty (at a small liberal arts college) are not ready for
Share-Alike, and prefer ND. 

I am encouraged that many faculty across the curriculum are well-versed in
copyright issues, and many have stories of how it has gotten in the way. I
think that the climate is ripe for CC adoption. Should we keep an ND opt-out 
in
the .edu license? It seems reasonable to me that we can get folks started with
ND who might otherwise reject the CC concept.

Sorry if this is an eleventh hour wrench in the werks...

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/
http://studio.colby.edu/
zechandl AT colby.edu
207.872.3898


Quoting David Wiley <david.wiley AT gmail.com>:

> Back in August of 2003 I proposed that rather than create a new
> education license, <a
>
href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-education/2003-August/000058.html";>we
> rebrand the By-NC-SA license as the cc.edu</a>. The idea had lots of
> traction on the list - <a
>
href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-education/2003-October/000075.html";>Stephen
> even agreed eventually</a> ;) - as did many others (see <a
> href="https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-education/";>August -
> December 2003 posts</a>).  However, because of some push back from CC
> about rebranding as  a strategy, the discussion moved another
> direction and to the frustration of many eventually fizzled out.
> 
> The rebranding strategy has become increasingly common for CC  (c .f.
> the new wiki license beta), and rebranding is now an option for us. I
> therefore propose we rebrand the By-NC-SA as the Creative Commons
> Education License, and create a special commons deed for anyone using
> the license (i.e., add some contextual language to the human readable
> part of the license - e.g., the way the new <a
> href="http://creativecommons.org/drafts/wiki_0.5";>wiki license
> beta</a> has been handled).
> 
> Thoughts?
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