OER *may* represent another approach to the legal creation, distributiong and use educational resources.
A fun place to start exploring is:
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html
MIT's Open Courseware initiative <http://ocw.mit.edu> has been a poster-child for OER.
Several foundations have made substantial
investments, e.g. <http://www.oercommons.org/> and there are many more initiatives that work at the institutional level and beyond.
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Why
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