[Oer-community] On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license

[rory]

On 12-11-30 3:08 PM, Wayne Mackintosh wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Downes, Stephen 
> <Stephen.Downes at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca <mailto:Stephen.Downes at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>     But let's take my own content as an example, which is licensed
>     under Creative Commons. If a university uses my content (which I
>     know at least some universities do) but makes it available only in
>     an internal repository, hence requiring a student to pay tuition
>     to access it, then my CC-licensed content is not freely available.
>
>
RORY>>> Stephen. If the content is otherwise available online or could 
be made available online then you don't have a case. How can you sue 
them for not making if freely available online if you as author don't do 
so? If you do make it freely available online then it is freely 
available in which case your CC content is freely available. It  would 
perhaps help and be most ethical for the university to point to your 
site but not illegal if they don't.

-- 
Rory McGreal
UNESCO/COL Chair in OER
Athabasca University
rory at athabascau.ca
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