Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, I also agree, inclusive development and inclusive education would be possible only in an open environment. I cherish the view that all knowledge products of governments and inter governmental organizations should reach the public domain.
Though OER is there in our education history for many decades, strong and organized movements for the use of OER for inclusive education, especially in higher education, is comparatively new. In governance systems, especially in government an inter government sectors, usually major changes happen through regular and proactive interventions of stakeholders. Here the major stakeholders are governments, academic authorities and institutions, individual academicians and learners, social and educational thought leaders, FOSS techies etc. Our discussions on this also shows that its time for such interventions through constructive dialogues and collaborative projects. It will also help and supplement the efforts of those within such systems for a change. Since we cannot expect a leap from ‘all rights reserved’ to ‘public domain’ in one days time, handholding seems to be the right policy. Changes are already happening; let us work out ways for further changes. Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > I agree with your post Steve, > > It seems to me that international agencies do not understand the spirit of > copyright -- i.e.your rights to copy. > > Not only does UNESCO use a non-free custom license for its copyright -- > they take the liberty of claiming the copyright of others as their own. So > for example, if you post to the WSIS platform -- you agree to what is in > effect an all rights reserved copyright administered by UNESCO. > > I also understand that the International Government Agencies (IGO) are not > supportive of the existing CC licenses on the grounds that the unported > licenses do not specify a jurisdiction for enforcement / litigation of > their copyright were it to be released under a CC license. Some of the IGOs > are uncomfortable using CC licenses because they would prefer to litigate > / enforce licenses in the international court rather than the national > copyright laws where they are based. > > Creative Commons has suggested a simple solution whereby the Copyright > holder can specify jurisdictions in their copyright notice -- but progress > is slow :-(. > > I know there are many colleagues within UNESCO who are working hard at > moving the OER agenda forward and resolving these issues. > > I'm helping UNESCO -- by refraining to posting on IGO websites which do > not respect the copyright of my employer. Working for the OER Foundation -- > the copyright of my work must be licensed under a free cultural works > approved license and legally I would not be permitted to post on the UNESCO > cite without prior permission from my employer to use a non-free license. > > Interesting times. > > Wayne > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Steve Foerster <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Anil Prasad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> << I hope the message from Abel Caine, UNESCO OER Programme, as added >> below, regarding the launch of the UNESCO Open Educational Resources >> Platform and UNESCO/COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education on >> Tuesday 1 Nov, will be of grater interest to most of you. The event >> will be streamed live. See details in Abel's message: >> >> >> This may not be the reaction that UNESCO is going for, but it was my >> honest reaction: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/3c3dlpz >> >> -=Steve=- >> >> -- >> Stephen H. 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