A couple of years back when I was full time the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) we set up funding for innovative community learning projects on behalf of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA).
We proposed that any resources created should be OERs. The Skills Funding Agency were in agreement with making the material available to others but insisted on the material (every worksheet and PowerPoint) be 'Copyright vested in the Crown' and made available under Open Government Licence.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/
The result was clear licensing for sharing and it worked but in reality there were not too many learning resources created in these projects. However, there seemed to me something medieval about vesting the rights in the Queen and not the small community groups who had been the originators.
Has anyone else had experience of using the Open Government Licence?
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