Over the past couple of years, the UN University has been exploring the idea of adopting Creative Commons licenses. So far these discussions have been taking place between the UNU Media Studio and the UNU Communications Group (responsible for the main UNU website). At the same time, some individual researchers, like Rishab Ghosh and Philipp Schmidt at UNU-MERIT have taken the lead and started publishing their research and policy papers using a CC license. This website from the UNU Media Studio is the first one in the UNU to take on board the BY-NC-SA license. Essentially, we are learning by doing. We hope that in the longer term the UNU will evolve into a 100% Creative Commons institution. In order to get there, we would need to re-write the UNU’s intellectual property policy and get our Council to approve it. That is no small task, but one that would be really worthwhile. In the meantime, we would really like to know if anyone has come across another university or international organisation that has taken a similar step and adopted Creative Commons, so that we can learn from their experience. |
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Learning to Use Creative Commons Licenses
by Brendan Barrett on June 14, 2007 Comments (05)
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This is an extraordinarily important development. We at CC were very proud when MIT adopted CC licenses for all their courses (and by the end of this year, every MIT course will be online under a CC-BY-NC license). But I am especially proud than the UNU has taken this step. The UNU is, in my view, the most important international educational institution, symbolizing in practice and ideals, a world community. To see CC as part of that community is very rewarding to us, and our movement.
[...] United Nations University (UNU) Media Studio Program announced today that they have adopted CC by-nc-sa licenses for both their Media Studio and Online Learning [...]
[...] United Nations University (UNU) Media Studio Program announced today that they have adopted CC by-nc-sa licenses for both their Media Studio and Online Learning [...]
You may want to check out George Siemens at University of Manitoba in Canada.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/academic_support/ltc/
George made a videoconference presentation at our recent seminar for MA ePedagogy Design in Helsinki. Although he talked more about Connectivism in his presnetation, after looking him up I saw that his department are undertaking a project within the institution for a digital repository which has the option for creative commons.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/uts/ltc/resources/mspace/whatismspace.php
Thanks for the comments. Adopting Creative Commons is certainly the way to go and more and more people in the UNU are using these licenses. So I think pretty soon the entire intellectual property of the university will change to incorporate Creative Commons as the core of what we do. Could be as soon as the next UNU Council meeting in December. I hope so.
Brendan