The Deafening Silence David speaks of is ringing in my ears. I’ve tried to to read and understand the discussion of the CC-EDU license and feel like I still don’t understand it well enough to be able to say anything meaningful about it. Here is my jumbled understanding of it.
CC licenses are being developed as an alternative to copyright. In the case of copyright items, if you want to copy, use publically, create derivative works, or otherwise use the item, you must contact and obtain permission from the copyright holder (with the exception of fair use exceptions).
The idea with CC is to create alternative CC symbols that have recognizeable meaning to them so people who want to use the work can do so in the ways the associated licenses allow without having to get explicit permission. Of course this does not preclude people from contacting the creator to obtain permission to use the work in ways not specified by the CC license.
If this understanding is correct, I agree with Wiley’s latest proposal, that CC-EDU be a single symbol and license that has a single meaning, so all that see the symbol could know exactly what it means without further investigation. I also agree with Wiley’s the license options that Wiley has suggested.
Perhaps this has already been discussed, but it seems that the other option is one that is currently practiced by many websites, which is to place a statement of allowed use that describes in detail how the works hosted on the website can be reused. I guess the advantage of the the CC license is that people won’t have to try to read and decypher those statements.
In TADRIOLA, teachers can share classes, lessons, or activities that they create or assemble. I give them the options provided by CC, plus some additional ones (screen capture). Then when teachers go to borrow resources, they are notified of the conditions. The point I think of the previous discussion, is it may be better to simply define one set of use conditions that all must agree to if they are to play in my sandbox, thus avoiding potential confusion. It might be interesting to gather some data.
Posted on August 13th, 2003 by joel
Filed under: authoring tools
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