The city of Sao Paulo has adopted a law supported by REA-Brazil that requires the city to purchase open educational resources. Specifically the resources must be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA).
The law will also require future contracts with the city to include a clause that all resources created with public funding be licensed openly.
The legislation was introduced in June, and REA-Brazil worked with legislators for passage.
Original Sources in Portuguese:
- DECRETO Nº 52.681, DE 26 DE SETEMBRO DE 2011
- Proposta da Secretaria de liberar o uso de todo seu material didático vira decreto
Sources in English:
- Carolina Rossini, posting to KEI’s A2K List. “Sao Paulo city adopts OER law.” October 3, 2011
- Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons Blog. “Brazil introduces OER into federal legislation and adopts local government policy.” June 15, 2011.
Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.
