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Wanted: Single Standard For Open-Content Licenses

posted Sunday, 20 May 2007

Creative Commons aims to unite open education resources into a single permissions framework.

Wanted: Single standard for open-content licenses
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7013

The movement toward open course materials for education has created something of a problem: Although a number of repositories have been set up to allow users to download sharable online content, many of these sites contain materials that use different licensing agreements. Now, a new initiative from the nonprofit Creative Commons aims to solve this problem. Called CC Learn, the project seeks to create a single, standard licensing framework that can encompass all open educational resources.  Full Story

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1. Pierre left...
Monday, 21 May 2007 1:16 am :: http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre

Hi, there is something wrong with the hyperlinks in the post. If you click them you'll be asked to add username and password because it is a redirect through a mail application. The article itself however is available here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7013 and can the first page can be read without registering, the full article apparently requires a free registration to eSchool News.