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  • From: Robin <rlopmo AT pasty.com>
  • To: cc-education AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [cc-education] Institutions
  • Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:47:01 -0400

Greetings,

I seem to remember in a posting to this list a long time back, that someone making the point that educational licences shouldn't be restricted to use by those in educational institutions. This should be reiterated. Others besides those in universities, colleges, and other like institutions are doing scholarly work that would be useful, and likewise, those independent scholars would be making the same use of anything produced by those within these institutions. The question becomes, is this about what is being produced (the nature of the work) or who produces it? An edu licence could easily become one more way that the university takes proprietary hold of information, knowledge, etc. Is it desireable to have a licence that only those who can prove university faculty or research staff could use? The other question here is then do we establish two kinds of knowledge, a sort of new definition of sacred and secular? Questions about who uses what for what will not stay inside the ivy covered walls.

Robin Oye

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  • [cc-education] Institutions, Robin, 04/04/2005

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