I've written widely about open educational resources elsewhere in this blog and think that
openly licensed materials hold great potential as a significant alternative.
Teaching students to search and use
CC licensed material empowers them to be creative and learn about copyright law.
Today, Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic - book publisher in the United States and is recognized as both an innovator in the cause of creator rights and the comics industry's leading publisher
of licensed material.
With more and more companies like Inkling supporting digital textbooks and platforms such as the recently profiled TurnIt allowing teachers and professors the ability to publish only the pertinent
licensed material in one digital file, the devices themselves are finding their ways on to school supply lists worldwide.
The publication contains no intellectual property or
licensed material related to Final Fantasy VII or the Final Fantasy franchise and is not licensed or endorsed by Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd..
The notice in the front of the Purcell book says, «In accordance with the National Science Foundation's policies concerning curriculum revision material developed under their auspices, -LSB-...]» This seems to imply that when these publishers took NSF money, they accepted an obligation to
freely license the materials.
The upshot is that publishers are free to choose whether to
license their material in e-book form for library lending and to dictate some of the terms of those uses, such as the number of devices on which a given user can read the material, period of lending, or number of times an e-book can be loaned.
«In our commitment to the #GoOpen campaign, we have stated our intent to provide expert professional development to schools and districts interested in using
openly licensed materials to supplement existing resources, and we are excited to release two new case studies that will begin to demonstrate the benefits of these resources to educators nationwide.»
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