Discussions > UNESCO needs a CC BY SA license for the OER Community
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Abel Caine
444 days ago |
I'm not quite sure what it means when you say "UNESCO cannot decide on the licenses choices of users". If you adopt a CC-By-SA license site-wide, you are, I think, deciding the licensing terms of contributed content "except where otherwise noted". (Maybe that is what allows users to choose their own terms?)
I also think the choice to use CC-By-SA versus CC-By or CC-Zero should be considered carefully, and discussed publicly. The license choice should reflect realistic use cases. Perhaps instead of simply selecting one license, you could provide users with the choice between these various licenses?
Some things to consider!
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Wayne Mackintosh
444 days ago |
Joe,
Good thoughts -- you're right, UNESCO cannot decide on the IP licensing choices of individuals, and as I read it, the policy makes provision for users to specify an alternate license. At least, that is how I read the "exept where otherwise noted".
The IP of the contributions to the site would belong to the copyright holders -- and not UNESCO, except those contributions made by UNESCO staff.
CC-BY would also be an acceptable choice for a default license in my view as it is also a free cultural works approved license. The copyleft license can mitigate against some perceived fears of commercial exploitation (which is a big issue if I read the standard licenses used by UNESCO) so CC-BY-SA provides a middle ground as the default with the option for users to use a CC-BY (or any of the other CC licenses.). Technically CC-Zero is not a license -- its a PD declaration -- but PD would be fine as well in my view.
Ideally in the future - -it would be great if the technology could support license choices, but I guess UNESCO needs a starting point.
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Anil Prasad
444 days ago |
Great progress! Thank you Abel and Dr. Wayne!
I think we may require different licensing strategies for (1) discussion forums and (2) facility to upload file/create page. Discussion forums may adopt CC-BY license or PD (if possible), otherwise consolidation of replies/remarks and applying a license to the consolidated replies would become a complicated issue if contributors add different licenses to their replies/remarks. Here we have to ensure that either UNESCO or any participant or the public should be able to prepare/distribute/redistribute/adopt/adapt a consolidated replies/remarks of the community discussions with the freedoms ensured by a CC-BY license.
The second category, that is, uploading of files etc may provide freedom to the authors to assign a license of their choice as being discussed. --
Warm regards
Anil
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Stephen Downes
444 days ago |
> I'm not quite sure what it means when you say "UNESCO cannot decide on the licenses choices of users"
There are many people who wish to use different licences for OERs, specifically, By-NC-SA.
We could do the who argument here, but I think it's wiser of UNESCO to allow people the option. Large portions of OER are already NC and it creates a needless schism in the community to try to force people to allow commercial exploitation of their contributions.
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Abel Caine
443 days ago |
Hi Stephen,
If I understand C licensing correctly then the text of our draft CC BY SA license with the 'Except' clause would allow a contributor to specifically state that their contribution is CC BY SA NC, ND, Copyrighted, or in the public domain.
Users of that particular contribution would have to observe the particular license status.
Appreciate further clarification.
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Abel Caine
443 days ago |
Tim from Creative Commons alerted me to the license used by the really cool Peer to Peer University (P2PU) available at: http://p2pu.org/license. A detailed explanation of how they chose their CC BY SA license is available at the bottom of the page (in ODT and PDF - pretty cool).
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