Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Andrew Rens" <andrewrens AT gmail.com>]

Hi Edward

One project which is addressing this is PALM Africa, (Publishing and 
Alternative Licensing Model of Africa run by Frances Pinter. The project aims to first
investigate how alternative publishing models for learning materials
will benefit both publishers and developing countries.

There will be a node on the iCommons site shortly.

Of course this isn't the only project working on this issue.
Using CC+ i.e. automated customised licences, on top of
existing CC licences, is a promising approach which would reward
further investigation. 

Andrew Rens
Intellectual Property Fellow
Shuttleworth Foundation

On 21/01/2008, Edward Cherlin <echerlin AT gmail.com> wrote:

I'm new to this list. Among my projects are volunteering with One
Laptop Per Child; organizing Earth Treasury, a non-profit for linking
schools around the world and teaching the students how to go into
sustainable international business together; and Open Hardware
development.

I just found out that the CC-Developing Nations license has been
dropped. I was about to start talking to publishers about CC-DN
licenses for textbooks and educational content for the One Laptop Per
Child XO computer. This seems to me to be a clear case where we need a
license that isn't globally free.

There will be entirely free materials for children using XOs from a
number of sources, but it will take time to build them up. I think we
need a way to ease commercial publishers into the idea.

What do you think, Sirs?

--
Edward Cherlin
End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay

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