US: Department of Labor - Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program
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Policy Title: US Department of Labor: Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCT) grant program - Go to the policy
Author(s): US Department of Labor,
Description: In order to ensure that the Federal investment of these funds has as broad an impact as possible and to encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, as a condition of the receipt of a TAACCCT grant, the grantee will be required to license to the public (not including the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant (Work) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CCBY) license. Work that must be licensed under the CCBY includes both new content created with the grant funds and modifications made to pre-existing, grantee-owned content using grant funds.
This license allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted Work and requires such users to attribute the Work in the manner specified by the grantee. Notice of the license shall be affixed to the Work. For general information on CCBY, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.
On April 19, 2013 US Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris announced the third annual round of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Program (TAACCCT) grant program. The press release states that the current round of grants available is $474.5 million bringing the total 2011-13 program investment to nearly $1.5 billion. A summary blog post of the third-round DOL TAACCCT announcement can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37938
Note: this open policy has led to additional open policies inside the US Department of Labor: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42446Policy Comments:
