Case Studies/Flat World Knowledge
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Overview
Flat World Knowledge is a commercial textbook publisher that incorporates CC licenses into their business model. Co-founded by the Director of Marketing for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, FWK makes higher education textbooks available via CC BY-NC-SA, allowing professors and students to adapt them to individual courses.
License Usage
Please specify the license adopted. How is the license applied? Can you provide any available statistics? What has been the author or organization's experience with Creative Commons licenses so far – what have been the benefits and lessons learned?
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Motivations
How did the author or organization first hear about Creative Commons? Why did they choose to license under Creative Commons? Which license did they select and why? Any other issues you may have come across/comments you’d like to make.
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