Ford Foundation Announces Open Licensing Policy for Grantees | News | PND

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-07

Summary:

"The Ford Foundation has announced that it is adopting an open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research, with the twin goals of promoting greater access to that material and transparency around its work. Effective immediately, grantees and consultants will be required to widely disseminate all copyrightable products funded by a foundation grant — including white papers, research reports, and websites — and make them available under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which allows others, free of charge and without needing permission, to copy, redistribute, and adapt such materials, provided they give appropriate credit. The Creative Commons requirement will be waived when the expected product contains sensitive or confidential material. The foundation itself is adopting the CC BY license for all materials on its website not subject to third-party ownership. Ford joins several other grantmaking organizations that have adopted Creative Commons licensing policies, including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which requires CC BY for all project-based materials, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which adopted a CC BY open access policy for published grant-funded research and data ..."

Link:

http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/ford-foundation-announces-open-licensing-policy-for-grantees

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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Date tagged:

02/07/2015, 08:01

Date published:

02/07/2015, 03:01