Dear Wayne , could you please explain to me more about these NC rules I am confused
why MIT use it what is the difference ? Leo thank you 2008/4/9 mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A quick observation -- > > MIT's OCW materials use the NC restriction and therefore do not > qualify as free content under the free cultural works definition. The > access may be open -- but they are certainly not free materials :-) > > Visit the CC site to see which licenses are approved as free cultural > works. > > Fortunately WE and the Wikimedia foundation projects have been smart > enough to use free content licenses! > > > Cheers > Wayne > > On Mar 30, 5:51 am, James Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content From More Than 2,000 Journalshttp:// > ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/media/elsevier_announce/elsevier_... > > > > CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar. 7, 2008 - In a move to encourage open education, > > MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier have agreed to make available > > figures and text selections from any of Elsevier's more than 2,000 > > journal titles for use on OCW. > > > > As a result of this landmark agreement, select Elsevier content can now > > be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely > > downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license. The > > Elsevier content includes up to three figures (including tables and > > illustrations) per individual article (or ten per journal volume) and up > > to 100 words from a single text extract (or 300 words from a series of > > extracts). > > > -- blog:http://leolaoshi.yo2.cn HELP项目https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
