Thanks for sharing this Alan. I must admit, I haven’t thought about the issue of the licensing requirements related to Pixabay, etc… as you are right, these allow for free use, but with the caveat of not recreating the same service… I am assuming that for now this issue can be overcome by the following statement for each work: “CC by, unless otherwise noted” for example.
Specifically, for the platform I am working on, which is not live yet, the licensing options will be as follows for now, but will be adapted as needed later:
- Use and adapt for free (Creative Commons Public Domain license - CC0), unless noted otherwise
- Use and adapt for free, credit the author (Creative Commons Attribution license - CC BY), unless noted otherwise
- Use and adapt for free, credit the author, use same license (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license - CC BY SA), unless noted otherwise
- Use for free, credit the author, no changes (Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license - CC BY ND), unless noted otherwise
- Use and adapt for free, credit the author, not for profit (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license - CC BY NC), unless noted otherwise
- Use and adapt for free, credit the author, not for profit, use same license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license - CC BY NC SA), unless noted otherwise
- Use for free, credit the author, not for profit, no changes (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license - CC BY NC ND), unless noted otherwise
- Use based on Indigenous knowledge labels (Traditional Knowledge - TK), unless noted otherwise
I am aware that there are many TK lables and licenses, but for now am not including the exhaustive list, I want to see how much interest there will be in these licenses before creating a more comprehensive controlled vocabulary.
Like you, I would like to hear more about the amount of time and resources that those advising faculty or working with them are investing into OER development or adaptation.
I will post to SPARC Libraries & OER Forum to see if this might get more traction there.
Ksenia