Group items tagged

"Introduction Decision setting up the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency for the management of Community action in the fields of education, audiovisual and culture in application of Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 (2009/336/EC), repealing Decision 2005/56/EC. " (all EU languages)

"Home | Collection | Further information | Links | Contact Universitätsbibliothek Bern DigiBern - Bernese Culture and History on the Web DigiBern is a web offer by the University Library of Berne and includes digitized texts and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Berne city and the canton of Berne. Digibern has been online since 2002. So far, the most widely spread and used printed texts have been digitized. The documents are fully searchable for keywords. They can be traced via the index on the DigiBern web site. Moreover, they are indexed and web linked in the online library catalog IDS Basel/Bern. Digibern is freely available worldwide to scholars and the public. "

GOOD COPY BAD COPY - a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

"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."

"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."

"Our Goals * Minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to the creation and reuse of OER. * Bring new communities and groups into the world of open learning. * Change the culture of education so that teachers have greater control over their pedagogy, greater freedom to experiment, and a larger community for support. * Empower participation and expertise in education from around the world."

Our Goals\n\n * Minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to the creation and reuse of OER.\n * Bring new communities and groups into the world of open learning.\n * Change the culture of education so that teachers have greater control over their pedagogy, greater freedom to experiment, and a larger community for support.\n * Empower participation and expertise in education from around the world.\n

These free audio books are here for your personal enjoyment and we do hope you enjoy them. Schools are also welcome to make these audio books available to their students provided there is no charge associated with access to them.