development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Stephen Downes <stephen AT downes.ca>]

Hiya,

My own thought is that the purpose of licenses addressed at specific 
target groups, such as kids, is:
(a) to create a market of customers used to receiving a certain sort of 
content
(b) to charge commercial access fees for the same content outside that 
market.

So my own inclination is not to support such licenses. I see no reason 
to start charging a person for content just because they turn 18, and 
have no interest in supporting a mechanism that makes this possible.

Just my view.

-- Stephen


AYO KUSAMOTU wrote:

> Here are some of the thoughts expressed so far :
>
> 1. New (Kids-Only?) License(s)
>
>   The creation of a new CC licenses or licenses that
> allowed free
>   reuse of work by children only. This would
> conceivably be used by
>   folks trying to license their content for children.
> There are other
>   licenses, like the developing nations license, 
> that might
>   conceivably be modified for OLPC use.
>   
> 2. Rewording Existing Licensing Descriptions for
> Children
>
>   An organized effort to reword or rewrite the
> current descriptions
>   of CC licenses so that they are understandable by
> children.
>
> 3. CC-Connected Publishing Tools
>
>   A project to ensure that OLPC-created authoring and
> publishing
>   tools are able to speak and express CC-style
> metadata out of the
>   box.
>
> 4. Statement/Position in Favor of Free Access of Kids
> Works 
>
>   A principled statement or position in favor of free
> and fair reuse
>   and a plan to build this into the OLPC platform and
> software
>   without bogging kids down in a licensing and
> copyright discussion
>   that intrudes upon content creation.
>
> In our short conversation in Cambridge, we seemed to
> think that the
> second, third, and fourth items were each things we
> wanted to pursue.
>
> The first item was not something that we were
> particularly interested
> in pursuing for a number of reasons. These range from
> general concerns
> with license proliferation to concerns about
> enforceability to the
> lack of a stated by desire by content producers for
> such a license.
>
> Most importantly IMHO, a "kids-only" license seems to
> contradict our
> previous statements to software producers against
> well-intentioned
> not-quite-free/open software because it would not
> create a platform
> that would be able to grow up with the children.
>
> I think we would be best served to work closely with
> CC to help them
> rewrite their license descriptions so that kids can
> understand them
> and to help integrate the ability to deal with CC
> metadata into the
> publishing tools in OLPC software.
>
>
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