Tex. Educ. Code § 31.07101 · Subchapter B-1. OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
FREE USE, REUSE, MODIFICATION, OR SHARING LICENSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Instructional material is licensed to this state under an intellectual property license that allows for free use, reuse, modification, or sharing with others if the license:
(1) is irrevocable and perpetual;
(2) permits the state to sublicense the material;
(3) authorizes the use of the material by any person in any location permitted by the terms of the original license, if applicable;
(4) authorizes access, use, transmission, adaptation, public display, public performance, public distribution, and copying of the material; and
(5) authorizes the creation of derivative works as permitted by the terms of the original license, if applicable.
(b) Instructional material licensed to this state under an intellectual property license that is restricted to noncommercial or educational use qualifies under this subchapter as instructional material licensed to this state under a license that allows for free use, reuse, modification, or sharing with others.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 818 (H.B. 1605), Sec. 29, eff. June 13, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.31.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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