Brian asked: Is the OERu agnostic on [CC license choice]?
Under our core principles of engagement<http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/Core_principles_of_engagement> course materials hosted on OER Foundation infrastructure to guide and support learners must use free cultural works approved licenses (CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or resources dedicated to the public domain). Of course, it is possible to link to open access resources available on the internet from the centrally hosted materials. The default WikiEducator license is CC-BY-SA but the community also supports the use of CC-BY. A number of OERu courses use the CC-BY license. The reasons why we avoid the use of NC resources is pragmatic: 1. Under Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons licenses, the copyright holder defines what is meant by non-commercial. The OERu partners will charge fees for formal assessment. Some NC copyright holders will deem fees charged for assessment services based on NC licensed materials as commercial activity, while others may be have a more lenient interpretation with regards to public institutions charging assessment fees. 2. Many OERu courses are derivative works from existing resources. When remixing two or more CC-BY-NC-SA resources , it would be necessary to confirm the copyright holder's definition of NC because the definition of what constitutes non-commercial may vary among NC copyright holders. The SA requires that the derivative work should be released under the same license. Stephen is correct in highlighting the risks of enclosure where corporate interests may restrict access to CC licensed materials by placing them behind a pay wall or using technological means to control and restrict access or by adding more restrictions over time. Two examples spring to mind. Flatworld Knowledge originally used a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- over time, these resources were enclosed by deploying technological means increasing restrictions to access these materials. Another example is the Kahn Academy. In the early days the Kahn Academy used the default YouTube license. After lobbying and encouragement from the OER community, the license was changed to a CC-BY-SA license. As funding to support the Kahn Academy increased, a more restrictive license was applied (CC-BY-NC-SA). Free cultural works approved licenses place an additional requirement in using open and editable file formats to facilitate remix. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Brian Mulligan <[email protected]>wrote: > Interestingly, I saw a "debate" between Rory McGreal and Stepben Downes > online about the relative merits of CC BY and CC BY-NC where Stephen was > arguing that NC was not more restrictive. I'm afraid I was with Rory on > that one as I believe restricting commercial use would be a barrier to the > dissemination of knowledge. > > Is the OERu agnostic on this? > > Brian > > > On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 05:49:29 UTC, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: >> >> Creative Commons is the air that OER breathes. Creative Commons provides >> the legal tools to enable the realisation of the OER vision for more >> affordable education futures. >> >> *Coming at a time of dramatically rising higher education cost and high >> youth unemployment, the OERu provides a parallel learning universe based >> solely on OER, quality assurance, and institutional accreditation. 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