Hi all. (Cc-ing REA Brasil mainling list, Wikimedia Brasil and OKFN Brasil)
Well, as fas as I understood, these educational contents will have the non commertial (NC) restriction. I must tell politically it is a good progress if the bill is sanctioned, since this is a bill for the reachest state of Brazil, but it would be awesome without this restriction. This bill was put forward by people like Carolina Rossini and Bianca Santana, my friends who lead open educational resources initiatives in Brazil (see here http://rea.net.br/).
I congrat them for the good efforts put to this happen and I am unsure to sign it, even being my friends, so comments are very welcome. In São Paulo city, the richest in South America, they have created a similar law for the educational content produced with public money, but again with the NC restriction. Small cities around São Paulo has already been using this content for their schools, if I remember some news I read a while ago. And this is *really* good.
My feeling sometimes is that people fear to suggest to remove the NC restriction when advocating a more open license, even when dealing with public money (does the State fear people to start their own business and improve the local economy? :/) I think we should not fear this and we need to argue why NC is closed, why NC is bad. As an example, once it was pretty easy to convince a person working in the secretary of education of Rio de Janeiro - I went trying to partner with them using Wikimedia hat. When I told this person their content could not be used on Wikimedia projects because of the NC restriction, he decided to change, it was the easiest conversation ever (see here http://www.educopedia.com.br/ - some contents were still with the NC, but the main page changed and I hope the new content as well).
I wonder if we have a law that doesn't allow commertial, but is less restricted than the traditional all rights reserved, will be more difficult change. I don't think so. So we should consider our position in this case, a very important one in Latin America.
Best,
Tom
2013/1/31 Peter Murray-Rust pm286@cam.ac.uk:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Rayna rayna.st@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I received this letter with an invitation to sign: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SAJkDvdNWbXwSUyLJhb2qZ395S8UZVj3UMk1Xp8z...
For some background, please check out here: http://rea.net.br/site/sao-paulo-legislative-assembly-passes-9892011-oer-bil...
I'm not sure whether this is something OKFN as an organization should sign, but in any case it is a very nice achievement and I believe it deserves our names :)
It contains the terms "Open" and "Creative Commons" . Some uses of these are compliant with OKF, others are not.