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

Tue Sep 23 11:30:30 UTC 2014

looking for a uni with cc licensed pages

http://www.soas.ac.uk/

SOAS has had a cc licensed Uni site for 3 years now I think

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Terry Loane <terryloane at aol.com> wrote:

>  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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