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"Dice started its requirement analysis by collecting stories of issues and solutions about digital copyright management. To this purpose, the Fernfachhochschule Schweiz in Brig developed a short online survey."

"Though Open Access publication and Creative Commons licensing were not mentioned as issues by the people who participated in the DICE survey, several replies deal with germane issues: see cases THETA-MU in the "Per cominciare..." section of the handbook. The concern about protection expressed in THETA, IOTA and KAPPA is answered in Chapter B [check "B" in final version - calmansi calmansi just now] of this handbook: works such as those mentioned in these replies are automatically protected by copyright law once they have been expressed, and this protection also obtains for works expressed in digital form, and offered online. Open Access publishing and of Creative Commons licensing are particular uses of copyright law. As we shall see in what follows, they can help towards the communal sharing wished for by the author of LAMBDA, and the literature about their implementation can be of use in solving the conundrums of third parties' rights evoked by the author of MU. Open Access The main Swiss higher education authorities have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. This is a great progress for research. It also means that all publications by teachers and researchers - and all theses by students - of Swiss academic and higher education institutions must be made available in Open Access repositories, following the rules stated in by the Berlin Declaration: 1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 2. A complete

"Session Type: General Session Thursday Nov 5th, 2009 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Wells Fargo Theater 5263 reads In this talk, Lawrence Lessig will review the progress of the "open access" movement in education. He will make a call for educators to finally resolve this issue in a way that enables the potential of technology for education. * Speakers * Resources and Video Speakers Lawrence Lessig Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and Professor of Law Harvard University "

On November 5, 2009, Lawrence Lessig gave a talk entitled It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right at the Educause 2009 Congress. The talk is available * as an audio recording: http://www-cdn.educause.edu/sites/default/files/e09-lessig-session.mp3 (Running time: 60:23 minutes 27.64 MB) * as a video: http://blip.tv/file/2827842 * for download as a .flv video file (200 Mb) from Michael Paskevicius' Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right blog post (Nov. 12, 2009)

"So, let me make one final plea, to bring you into this battle. You all know, we are in the middle of a war. I don't mean - actually, we are in the middle of many wars - I mean actually one war here, the copyright war. War that the late Jack Valenti, my friend - extraodinary man - used to refer to as his own "terrorist war"? - where apparently , the terrorists in this war are our children. (audience laughs). So we organize and wage war against these terrorists. We talk about this as a war that needs to be waged against these pirates. And the thing that we need to recognize as educators, as scientists, as parents, as people who understand the potential and uses of this technology, is: we can't kill this technology, we can only criminalize it. We're not going to stop our kids from creating the way they create, ways that we couldn't even begin to imagine creating, at least when I was growing up. We can only drive that creativity underground. We can't make our kids passive, the way that, again, I was passive growing up, the way Souza feared. We can only make them "pirates". And the question we, as a culture, need to ask is: Is that any good? Our kids live in this age of prohibitions, in all sorts of contexts of their life. They live life against the law. We tell them they live life against the law and they recognize their behavior is against the law. That recognition is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corruptive of the rule of law in a democracy. 3571.076838 3590.998233 You, each of you, all of us, have let this insanity happen. You, each of you, all of us, could, if we actually stood up and did something about it, make it stop. Thank you very much."

Vereinsziele und Entstehungsgründe Die Vereinsziele von freearchives.ch sind nichtkommerzieller Natur. Im wesentlichen geht es darum, dass wir Informationen langfristig speichern und erhalten möchten. Diese Informationen sollen nicht nur irgendwie im Zugriff sein, sondern möglichst bequem abrufbar sein. Langfristig heisst, dass die Informationen als Bilddatei gespeichert sind, bequem abrufbar bedeutet, dass es eine Möglichkeit geben soll, aus den Bilddaten durchsuchbare Daten aufzubereiten. Dazu bedarf es einer Texterkennung über die gescannten Seiten. Für einfachere Texte können wir wärmstens Tesseract empfehlen. Wenn es darum geht, durchsuchbare PDF-Dateien zu erstellen, so gibt es derzeit keine brauchbare OpenSource-Lösung. Der Verein freearchives.ch möchte dazu beitragen, dass dies so bald als möglich der Fall ist.

"Soweit wir das beurteilen können, handelt es sich vollumfänglich um Werke, deren Urheberrechtsschutz abgelaufen ist und damit gemeinfrei sind. In den Nutzungsbedingungen schreiben sie jedoch, dass sämtliche Werke unter einer Creative Commons "by-nc-sa"-Lizenz stehen. Zusätzlich gibt es einen Widerspruch zwischen der durch die Angabe einer CC Lizenz erlaubten Weiterverbreitung eines Werkes und ihrer Angabe, dass die Werke nicht auf anderen Servern gespeichert werden dürfen. Es ist ihnen selbstverständlich unbenommen, für die Dienstleistung der Erstellung der Scans Gebühren zu erheben. Wenn diese Scans jedoch veröffentlicht werden, sind sie gemeinfrei, denn durch den Vorgang des Scannens entsteht kein urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk."

"Contents Introduction Course Materials: * Module 1: Copyright and the Public Domain * Module 2: The International Framework * Module 3: The Scope of Copyright Law * Module 4: Rights, Exceptions, and Limitations * Module 5: Managing Rights * Module 6: Creative Approaches and Alternatives * Module 7: Enforcement * Module 8: Traditional Knowledge * Module 9: Activism * Glossary Contributors The Rotisserie * for students: Information about the Rotisserie Session * for instructors: How to prepare a Rotisserie session" "Objectives: Copyright for Librarians is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), a consortium of libraries from 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning: * copyright law in general * the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries * how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped. "

"Avec Monsieur Carlo Govoni, le Conseil fédéral a nommé un grand connaisseur en la matière en tant que responsable de l'observatoire, qui sera aménagé auprès de l'Institut Fédéral de la Propriété Intellectuelle. Carlo Govoni, né en 1945, a achevé ses études à l'Université de Bâle avec une licence en droit. Entre 1973 et le printemps 2008, il a travaillé auprès de l'Institut Fédéral de la Propriété Intellectuelle, depuis 1996 en tant que chef de la division droit d'auteur. Dans cette fonction il a marqué de manière déterminante l'environnement du droit d'auteur suisse. Monsieur Govoni enseigne le droit des médias à l'Université de Fribourg et il est l'auteur de nombreuses publications sur le droit d'auteur. "

"Carlo Govoni von der Beobachtungsstelle für technische Maßnahmen ersucht um Mitteilung von Problemen im Zusammenhang mit DRM. Insbesondere von Seiten von Open Source Software Entwicklern werden Meldungen erwartet. Es wären aber auch allgemeine Hinweise hilfreich, damit Herr Govoni auf allenfalls noch unentdeckte Kanäle stößt, über die er eine allenfalls mißbräuchliche Verwendung von technischen Schutzmaßnahmen erkennen kann. Herr Govoni hat anhand von praktischen Beispielen erläutert, wo mißbräuchliche Situationen bestehen könnten. Zum Beispiel verwies er auf die Praxis von Online Shops in preislicher Hinsicht danach zu differenzieren, ob ein Musikwerk mit oder ohne Kopierschutz zum Download angeboten wird. Wenn die Version mit Kopierschutz den Privatgebrauch einschränkt, die Version ohne Kopierschutz jedoch nur gegen einen Aufpreis zu bekommen ist, könnte darin ein Mißbrauch liegen. Die Beobachtungsstelle klärt diesen Fall derzeit ab."

"hi, i'll keep this brief. this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short. if you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license, with any money that's generated being given to the humane society. i hope that you find what you're looking for, moby"

"We, a broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… We invite all citizens to make this Charter theirs, share it and put it into practice. We invite all governments, multinationals and institutions urgently to listen to it, understand it and enforce it."