[Open-education] ZDNet: Coursera regrets: Students from Cuba, Iran, Sudan banned due to U.S. law

Thu Jan 30 13:18:22 UTC 2014

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Hello,

you've probably already read it: Coursera, a MOOC provider placed in
U.S. has blocked its services for students from Cuba, Iran and Sudan:

http://www.zdnet.com/coursera-regrets-students-from-cuba-iran-sudan-banned-due-to-u-s-law-7000025728/

The reason: U.S. export law.

This raises the question in me, wether this could happen to OER as well.
Which law is applied to, say, the handbook?
After all, people from several nations worked on it.

Regards

Andre
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