OER and Colonialism

Leigh Blackall has a new post asking how OER promotes colonialism. Blackall discusses the assumptions that Creative Commons licenses make and its relationship to U.S. copyright. From the post:

In many respects, OER and the Creative Commons licenses help propel US centered ideas of copyright and intellectual property, indirectly inserting such ideas on the back of moral concepts such as sharing, freedom and openness, as though sharing, freedom and openness didn’t exist before, and that the only way to protect such notions is with legal instruments that recognise copyrights in the first place!