I'm not really expecting an answer to these questions as I think that this will be clear as the weeks progresss. Although if someone does have an easy answer, I'd love to hear it:-)
I’m pretty clear about all of the licenses except the non-commercial license. It restricts the license in that someone cannot make money off of my idea/intellectual property. I get that but didn’t the video say that even if I use the most open license (CC By) that if someone remixes and profits off of my original content, that they can’t do so without crediting me and also paying me for that content? Or they just have to credit me?
I’m not sure why anyone would want someone else to profit off of their intellectual property. I am all for sharing and making something better. But what if publishers started taking their content from the OER repositories, tweaking it, and reselling it back to students. When faculty are making decisions about textbooks, an instructor may not know where the information came from within the publisher's textbook so they can’t make an informed decision unless they have combed the repositories themselves and seen what is out there.
Perhaps this will someday become a non-issue but I’m trying to get clear in my mind what license I would use if I was going to use a CC license for what I have developed. I do have original content online as I developed two classes for Saylor.org and they openly share their content and classes but I did not have to license anything.
And does the non-commercial just mean that there can’t be a profit. If students are charged for something, like photocopies of the content, but there was no profit made then that would still be acceptable under the NC license, right?