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"Dr. Cable Green, the Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons (CC), joined Words & Numbers for a Lunch & Learn session Sept. 17. CC is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. It’s an issue of profound importance to education providers as it works to build a richer public domain by providing more flexibility than the “all rights reserved” that copyright allows. Navigating the muddy landscape of copyright laws and licenses is a painstaking task, even for the world’s most adept lawyers. Enter CC, providing Internet users with universal access to research, education and culture within the boundaries of copyright law. CC’s free, open licenses make it simple for authors to share their works under the terms and conditions they choose and for the public to use those openly licensed works. So how is open licensing being used and addressed with high-level stakeholders, publishers and policy makers? Dr. Green offered insight on what education providers, including publishers, need to know about leveraging existing free and open materials, in addition to his predictions on the future of open education ..."