Archive for the 'Copyright' Category

Dec 08 2008

Scientists: The Ultimate Remixers

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video, Copyright

Here’s a great argument for implementing Creative Commons in the sciences. This video, directed by Jesse Dylan, explains that those information silos that we speak of exist in spades for scientists. Of course, the best line of the video is that “scientists are the ultimate remixers” – cool since I consider myself a scientist at [...]

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Nov 18 2007

Students, we’d like to prepare you for the digital world . . .

  . . . but it would violate copyright – paraphrased from comments by Elizabeth on this post – Inside Higher Ed :: When It’s OK to Copy . So obviously we need to amend the copyright law, but before that happens, we need to sort out "fair use". The Society for Cinema and Media [...]

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Jun 22 2007

Lessig’s New Direction

Published by Andy Rush under Copyright, News & Commentary

Some interesting news was brought to my attention this morning, via Wes Fryer, that Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig will be shifting his focus from academic work, to what he calls the “corruption” of the political process. He states that “our government can’t understand basic facts when strong interests have an interest in its misunderstanding.” [...]

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Feb 21 2007

More Lessig Presentations

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video, Copyright

Lawrence Lessig is doing some great online presentations (again) with a whole series of Internet Policy “videos”. The first presentation, featured above, talks about a little-known subject regarding copyright called “Orphan Works”. Lessig’s presentations are always informative, and the presentation style is highly engaging. I look forward to this whole series dealing with subjects [...]

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