development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray.luna AT javeriana.edu.co>]

Hi all,

I'm a teacher and I live in the so called "Developing Nations". All this 
license inflation and eruption seems to protect markets and not the 
licensors and the ones wich recive the licenced work. I'm against 
license proliferation in that sense. Childs are part of a community and 
they need to be able to create inside that community in a continuum 
where other people is creating and share in the same terms.

Cheers,

Offray

Stephen Downes escribió:
> 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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