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 &lt;pm286(a)cam.ac.uk&gt;uk>: -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org -- -- Você recebeu este email pois está inscrito na lista "Recursos Educacionais Abertos - Brasil". Para enviar um email para essa lista, envie um email para rea-lista(a)googlegroups.com Para sair dessa lista, envie um email para rea-lista+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/rea-lista --- Você está recebendo esta mensagem porque se inscreveu no grupo "Recursos Educacionais Abertos" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar a inscrição neste grupo e parar de receber seus e-mails, envie um e-mail para rea-lista+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. Para obter mais opções, acesse https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

Pls forward this to all lists copied. I will answer calmly later. Since 2008, when I started the project in Brazil we have always pushed for the most flexible license - CC-BY, also to ensure the broadest interoperability with international OA and OER repositories and projects. But many in the academic community and among the politicians in Brazil fear the public content will be "privatized" after released as OER. I explained tons of time all the issues around this.... We even did a huge FAQ also with comments and explaining why we think NC is not the best choice...see www.rea.net.br/faq However, we could not get this time all we wanted. So, there is a preference - in the sao paulo city decree, the state bill and the federal bill, for for cc--by-nc-Sa (one of the most restrictive licenses of the CC spectrum), but folks CAN chose institutionally to chose less restrictive licenses.