The license adoption will allow Indian and overseas students to access copyrighted work and quality study material for free. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will make its study material easily accessible for both Indian as well as overseas students by adopting the creative commons licence. The license has been adopted in alignment with the UNESCO resolution of November 25, 2019 (Paris, France), on Open Educational Resources (OER). Briefing on the plan, TG Sitharam, chairman, AICTE, says, “This also makes the AICTE study material now open educational resources compliant, which not only respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner but also provides permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute educational materials.” “Presently, the license has been adopted for second-year books uploaded in e-Kumbh portal in English as well as other Indian Languages. In future, the remaining books of the sec...
