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Buying, then liberating excellent educational content Larry Sanger, A plea to liberate educational content, Citizendium Blog, March 22, 2008. Sanger is the founder of Citizendium and co-founder of Wikipedia. Excerpt:
Comment. The government of Indonesia has half the right idea. It's buying the copyrights to selected textbooks and reprinting the books for sale at deep discounts. Stian Håklev argues that the government should make the books OA under CC licenses. (Blogged here on February 8, 2008.) Sanger has the full idea. For related projects, see my past posts on intellectual property conservancies. Update. Larry Sanger has now turned his argument into an online petition. Please sign and spread the word. Update. Since I just mentioned the similar program in Indonesia, I should report an update from Stian Håklev based on three recent news stories in the Indonesian press. |