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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 3538 (Introduced in House) — To expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students. · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Definitions

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In this Act: The term educational resource means an educational material that can be used in postsecondary instruction, including textbooks and other written or audiovisual works. The term institution of higher education has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 ). The term open educational resource means an educational resource that is licensed under an open license and made freely available online to the public. The term open license means a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable copyright license granting the public permission to access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, adapt, distribute, and otherwise use the work and adaptations of the work for any purpose, conditioned only on the requirement that attribution be given to authors as designated.
The term open textbook means an open educational resource or set of open educational resources that either is a textbook or can be used in place of a textbook for a postsecondary course at an institution of higher education. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Education.
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