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

[Pat Lockley]

Only if the OER was hosted solely in the USA - and then logically some one
could download it (via CC license) and upload elsewhere.



On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Andre Jaenisch <ryunoki at openmailbox.org>wrote:

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