[FC-discuss] ccLearn intern position at Creative Commons

[Mike Linksvayer]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:56 +0930, Janet Hawtin wrote:
> The access to knowledge movement is also thinking about means of
> valuing which enable
> the social and ecological and medical roles of information as a social
> good as a primary goal, with copyright being just one tool we have
> employed to express value which has cost us in these Access to
> Knowledge respects.
> 
> CC currently operates on the assumption that copyright is THE means
> for deriving value.

CC licenses address copyright, but in no way make the assumption above.

And ccLearn is very explicit about not seeing copyright as the only
barrier (let alone the sole means!) to deriving value, right on
http://learn.creativecommons.org --


ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to
realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning
and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize
barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers,
technical barriers, and social barriers.

      * With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational
        materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by
        Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification,
        remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers,
        learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues
        pertaining to education.
      * With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards
        and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
      * With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to
        re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build
        on each other’s contributions.

> Sometimes it is hard to think beyond the models we use in daily life
> because they are so intrinsic to the way we are currently. Copyright
> has been built around the industrial business model and is a poor fit
> for collaborative diffuse generation of knowledge and value which is
> possible with the internet. People are looking for ways to work which
> are a closer match to the A2K values for information in society, and
> also which are supportive of diffuse collaboration as a means of
> aggregating value. It would be great if the Free Culture group could
> be a part of that broader conversation.

Certainly.

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