OpenEd: Week 6 Background Readings in Copyright and the Public Domain
Understanding the importance and value of the public domain, how much (what percentage) of this value would you estimate is realized when works are licensed with a Creative Commons or GFDL license? To what degree would the open educational resources movement (and therefore the world) be additionally benefited if OERs were simply placed in the public domain? Please explain. I think taht we can only measure the percentage of these licenses seeing how many rights we get about a work because a work which is in the public domain means that it’s free for use and re-use by anyone and there aren’t any restrictions upon the use of work and nobody can get rights over it. Therefore, the percentages in CC are variable because we can configure them in many forms: Attribution, Attribution - No Derivate Works , Attribution - No Derivate Works - Non commercial , Attribution - Non commercial , Attribution - Non commercial - Share alike, Attribution - Share alike. The GDFL license is critici