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Open content, coined by analogy with "open source" describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and Open_content_films that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. Technically, it is share alike without any prohibitions or otherwise. Content can be either in the public domain or under a license like the Creative Commons License. The term is also used to emphasize content that can be modified by anyone; not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual.
It is possible that the first documented case of Open Content was with the Royal Society, where they aspired toward information sharing across the globe as a public enterprise. The commonality is difficult to dismiss. The words "open content" were first put together in this context by David Wiley, then a graduate student at Brigham Young University, who founded the OpenContent project and put together the first content-specific (non-software) license in 1998 with input from Eric Raymond, Tim O'Reilly, and others.
Like the debate between the titles "open source" and "free software", open content materials can also be described as free content, although technically they describe different things. For example, the Open Directory Project is open content but is not free content. The main difference between licenses is the definition of freedom; some licenses attempt to maximize the freedom of all potential recipients in the future while others maximize the freedom of the initial recipient. Much of the ideals of the open source movement was led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). One such application is their Open Courseware.
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Classical MBA - Free lecture notes, articles, and resources pertaining to leveraging Open Source technologies and the classics in business.
Drafting the Gift Domain - An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).
First Monday - Open Content and Value Creation - Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.
Meta Description: [ The author considers open content, defined as content possible for others to improve and redistribute and/or content produced without any consideration of immediate financial reward, an important development track in the media landscape of tomorrow. ]
Free Curriculum Project - An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are Free in the GNU sense.
Information Research Weblog - A forum to exchange information on publications and websites of potential interest to the readers of the journal, Information Research, an open access, refereed, electronic journal covering the information field generally.
O'Reilly Open Books Project - Read entire books online which were published under various forms of open copyright.
Meta Description: [ O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of open copyright--over the years. The reasons for opening copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors. ]
OpenContent - Reason for being: facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content. Content = everything but software.
Openlaw - The Berkman Center's open law public forum, an experiment in public, online drafting of legal argument; bringing the concepts of open source to legal argument. Current cases: Open DVD (defending DeCSS and fighting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act); Eldred v. Reno (challenging the copyright term extension); Open Access (demanding open access to cable broadband); the Microsoft Remedy (analyzing the antitrust case).
Meta Description: [ The Berkman Center's open law public
forum, an experiment in public, online drafting of legal
argument. Current cases: Eldred v. Ashcroft challenge to the
Copyright Term Extension Act ]
OpenText Project - Mission is to lead the open source content movement in higher education, modeling textbook content after the open source software movement.
OSCOMAK: Open Source Community On Manufacturing Knowledge - Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.
Rice University's Connexions - Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style
Meta Description: [ Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. ]
Wikimedia Foundation - International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.
World66 - Free travel guide based on contributed open content.
Meta Description: [ Complete, objective travel information on thousands of destinations, including photos and reviews. Add your own wiki-style contributions. ]
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