Wayne wrote: 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. >
No, they weren't. Flat World Knowledge stopped releasing them under a CC license, but the Saylor Foundation took all of their released textbooks and repackaged them so that they wouldn't be lost to the community. They can be found at the Saylor Bookshelf <http://saylor.org/books>. And that's why Downes's argument fails. It relies on the assumption that no one else can also place the same works in a more free repository, and the whole point of a CC license is that yes, they can. And now we have evidence that they do. -=Steve=- -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
