[Oer-community] Introduction to the discussion

Steve Foerster steve at hiresteve.com
Tue Oct 5 18:47:42 MDT 2010


Zaid wrote:

> In general, I personally believe that it is a fundamental right
> to global learning that all academic content created should be
> shared for free, especially from public institutions.

I don't believe in state-granted entitlements to knowledge in the first
place, but if nothing else I surely agree that the idea of placing
everything funded by taxpayers into the public domain seems like a
no-brainer.

Personally, I'd at least like to see developing countries consider
far-reaching fair use/fair dealing amendments to copyright when it comes
to education use of copyrighted materials.  But I suppose we each have
our utopias....

-=Steve=-


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