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"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."

"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."

"Screencast which demonstrates how to add a Creative Commons license to offline works created in September 2009 for the University of Cape Town. http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct."

"License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ . Screencast which demonstrates how to add a Creative Commons license to offline works created in September 2009 for the University of Cape Town. http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct"

"Thema des SFEM 2009: Lernen mit "Web-Medien" Das SFEM ist ein Forum, welches von verschiedenen Organisationen unter dem Lead der Schweizerischen Stiftung für audiovisuelle Bildungsangebote, SSAB, ins Leben gerufen wurde. Zielgruppen Das SFEM führt Akteure und Entscheidungsverantwortliche aus Bildung, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Medien, Verwaltung, Verbänden und Politik zu Expertengesprächen zusammen. Im Zentrum stehen Fragen der elektronischen Medien im Wissens- und Bildungsbereich. Das SFEM schafft Kontaktmöglichkeiten zwischen Anbietern und Nachfragern von Bildungsmedien, ermöglicht Synergien und trägt zu der in der Strategie des Bundesrates für eine Informationsgesellschaft in der Schweiz von 2006 geforderten Vernetzung aller Partner bei."

"The following list sets out some basic things that you should think about before you apply a Creative Commons license to your work. It is not an exhaustive list. If you have additional questions or concerns, feel free to post to one of our email discussion lists, to send us an email at info@creativecommons.org or send an email to one of our country project leads or obtain your own legal advice. "

"Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient Web-enabled scientific research - Primary Focus: o Making scientific research "re-useful" - We develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. As part of this work, we released an "open data" protocol to enable the global scientific community to pool and use data created under different legal regimes. o Enabling "one-click" access to research tools - We offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research. o Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language."

- Primary Focus: o Making scientific research "re-useful" - We develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. As part of this work, we released an "open data" protocol to enable the global scientific community to pool and use data created under different legal regimes. o Enabling "one-click" access to research tools - We offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research. o Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.

"You need to check with your society. Currently, many of the collecting societies in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Taiwan and the Netherlands take an assignment of rights (or in France what is called a "mandate" of rights that nonetheless has the same effect practically as an assignment) from you in present and future works (so that they effectively become the owner of these rights) and manage them for you. So if you are already a member of a collecting society in one of these jurisdictions, you may not be entitled to license your work yourself under a Creative Commons license because the necessary rights are not held by you but by the collecting society. Please also read the FAQ on the website of the Creative Commons project team for your jurisdiction for more information about this issue in your jurisdiction. "

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