[Open-education] Hewlett Foundation expands open licensing policy to all project-based grantees

Fri Sep 19 17:30:49 UTC 2014

This is good news Cable - really cheered me on a Friday afternoon.

I would like to imagine that this may be a small step towards large 
educational organisations coming to realise that they do not add value 
by using copyright law to keep tight (dare I say, paranoid) control over 
resources they have created  - no, they add value through the skill, 
dedication and professionalism of their staff in the way they use these 
resources to teach.

I really admire the Hewlett Foundation for having a website that does 
not have 'Copyright ©' at the bottom of each page (although they do, 
quite correctly, make their copyright claim clear on their Intellectual 
Property Page <http://www.hewlett.org/intellectual-property-policy>). I 
wonder which university will be the first to follow their lead. Every 
university website I have seen has © at the bottom of each page and the 
only ones that also include creative commons logos are the Open 
University OpenLearn pages and MIT's Open Courseware pages.

Terry Loane

On 19/09/2014 17:32, Cable Green wrote:
> Greetings Open Friends:
>
> In case you missed this important open policy update update.
>
> The Hewlett Foundation has had an open licensing policy for its Open 
> Educational Resources grantees for years now, which means that 
> grantees that accept that money need to license content created under 
> those grants under a CC license (typically CC BY).
>
> Now the foundation plans to extend this policy (CC BY 4.0) to its 
> other grant programs too - insofar as those programs fund project work.
>
> http://www.hewlett.org/blog/posts/helping-good-ideas-go-further
>
> Well done, Hewlett!
>
> Cable
>
>
> Cable Green, PhD
> Director of Global Learning
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