18A:3B-81 Definitions relative to open textbooks.
1. As used in this act:
"Open educational resource" means an educational resource that is licensed under an open license and made freely available online to the public.
"Open license" means a world-wide, 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.
"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.
L.2019, c.77, s.1.