just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary
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If you haven’t watched Lessig’s fantastic, passionate keynote yet, watch it.
(link to the video, in case it gets stripped from the RSS)
It’s worth it, if for no other reason than to get your own Certificate of Entitlement, signed by Lawrence Lessig:
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Facebook recently revised the terms of service for their website. They have a right to do so. I have a right not to like the new terms. Here’s the snippet that put the last nail in the Facebook-as-content-application coffin for me:
Licenses
You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through the [...]
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Wow. While surfing the NFB archives, I found the trailer to an upcoming film called RiP: A remix manifesto. An open source film about copyright.
From the NFB page for the movie:
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 21st century and shattering the [...]
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I missed this when it was released because I was offline someplace warm.
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I did a test this morning to check out how well the video recording gear we have would work for recording a presentation tomorrow. The gear works great – it records directly to DVD so I can just walk away with a nice shiny disk after the presentation is over.
But that’s not what this post [...]
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I’m not sure what to make of this. According to the Associated Press,
The Associated Press, following criticism from bloggers over an AP assertion of copyright, plans to meet this week with a bloggers’ group to help form guidelines under which AP news stories could be quoted online.
- Seth Sutel, AP
And they provide commercial (and even [...]
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Michael Geist gave a talk at The University of Calgary on April 2, 2008, on the subject of copyright. He talked about the need for Fair Dealings, the dangers of the Canadian DMCA, and even touched on the benefits of open access and even open education.
Dr. Geist’s presentation was very compelling, interesting, and engaging. I [...]
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I just got back from Michael Geist’s inspiring presentation “Why Copyright?” – where he laid out some of the issues relating to copyright, open access, sharing, reusing, mashups, and a long list of implications for the potentially pending Canadian DMCA.
It felt like there was much agreement among the faculty and staff who were present for [...]
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I was present at a faculty collaboration project meeting today, and one of the profs was showing some of the resources they’ve built to support their classroom teaching. It was some impressive video work, which the prof admitted could easily have applications in other classes, or institutions, or even other disciplines. He then went on [...]
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I’m connecting the dots between two otherwise unrelated items that were in my Google Reader inbox this morning.
Random Mind: USC Film Students Fight Back
Dave Tosh: Data Ownership
The first article is about students at USC Film School realizing that the copyright for their student films belongs to USC. Which means they can’t do things like post [...]
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