Publisher uses Creative Commons to make books for kids available
About two years ago, I wrote about Pratham Books , a non-profit publisher of children's books in India.
“It was created to fill a gap in the market for children's books of good quality and at reasonable prices in the various languages of India. [His] mission is to make books available to every child in India. ”At that moment, Pratham Books released six books for children under the license CC BY-NC-SA , available on their page in Scribd . Since then, they have changed the licenses for these books to Attribution Only (CC BY) and expanded their offerings to books in the public domain . They also actively engaged in blogging and promoting the processing of their CC-distributed illustrations on Flickr .
Last month, CC licenses made it possible to make audio versions of children's books for the National Association of Blind India. Three audio versions were recorded in Radio Mirchi , two in English and one in Urdu, more are being recorded now.
I asked Guatam John from Pratham Books why they moved towards more open licensing (from the original CC BY-NC-SA license for books), and he also said this about the future of the books distributed by CC from Pratham Books.
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“It was created to fill a gap in the market for children's books of good quality and at reasonable prices in the various languages of India. [His] mission is to make books available to every child in India. ”At that moment, Pratham Books released six books for children under the license CC BY-NC-SA , available on their page in Scribd . Since then, they have changed the licenses for these books to Attribution Only (CC BY) and expanded their offerings to books in the public domain . They also actively engaged in blogging and promoting the processing of their CC-distributed illustrations on Flickr .
Last month, CC licenses made it possible to make audio versions of children's books for the National Association of Blind India. Three audio versions were recorded in Radio Mirchi , two in English and one in Urdu, more are being recorded now.
I asked Guatam John from Pratham Books why they moved towards more open licensing (from the original CC BY-NC-SA license for books), and he also said this about the future of the books distributed by CC from Pratham Books.
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“Pratham Books has taken the position that all our content will be licensed by either CC-BY or CC-BY-SA , because only these two are really open licenses for us that fit our needs. Radio Mirchi gave us content without any conditions attached, but since it was done free of charge and on a voluntary basis, we felt that putting it under the license CC-BY-SA would be the best option available to us for both the community and Radio Mirchi, and for us. The SA component also serves to limit commercial use, with the exception of re-distribution under this license and serves our philosophy, our requirements.
We continue to release content under open licenses, for example: blog.prathambooks.org/2010/03/retell-remix-rejoice-with-chuskit-world.html . And we will continue to do this all the time. We are working with the Connexions project to create a platform for the reuse, recycling and distribution of our content as well. Our main goal is to improve the Internet in terms of accessible content for children to read and we think we can speed it up in two ways: get a domain with our content and create a platform to facilitate reuse and re-targeting of content. ”
This text is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License .
You may copy, edit and use this text for commercial purposes with the obligatory indication of authorship.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/91138/
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