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).
> >
>


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