opencontent

Mike from Creative Commons repeats a question I asked in a recent post: I wonder what the delta is between clearing copyrestrictions adequately such that materials can be published on the web under an open license and just adequate clearance such that materials can be published on the web by an institution? Steve gives us … Read more

I recently realized… as long as I’m spending some of my time evangelizing on behalf of openness, maybe it would be a good idea for me to develop a deep understanding of the benefits of openness. I’ve always been an “argue by describing the benefits” kind of guy as opposed to an “argue on grounds … Read more

Stephen Downes posits that, “ultimately, the effect of Creative Commons licenses is to *preserve* copyright.” This argument is just silly, and is equivalent to saying that “ultimately, the effect of band-aids is that people will keep having boo-boos.” Creative Commons licenses are band-aids placed on a severely over-reaching and broken copyright system. Of course we … Read more