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IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE) copyright 2010 by IMS Global Learning Consortium is licensed under conditions equivalent to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License with an additional condition that derivative works that are publically distributed must be shared back with the IMS LODE community. This is accomplished by posting your derivative works to the public LODE web site. Instructions for posting are found on the web site at the following page:http://www.imsglobal.org/lode/shared_works.html . Additional derivative works may also be found there.

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