Via the CC Weblog comes an interesting story of a book, Theory and Practice of Online Learning, just released for download under a CC license. The terms are Attribution, No Derivative Works, and Noncommercial Use, which is basically a step beyond your garden-variety fair use guidelines. Kairosnews has the same license. What I find the most intriguing about the announcement is what Neeru Paharia pointed out in her post, that UNESCO has shown their support of Creative Commons. A representative of the organization writes:

I am delighted that educators all over the world will be able to enjoy this book at no cost because, in the true academic spirit of an open university, Athabasca has published it as an open source book under a Creative Commons License. UNESCO strongly encourages this form of publication as a way of bridging the digital divide and thereby helping to bring online learning to all the world’s people.

Several posters in the thread on the CC weblog have pointed out that it isn't actually an "open source book," since they don't allow derivative works. Evan rightly points out, "Free redistribution is great and all, but the real value of Free Culture is having other freedoms as well."