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Jennifer Dalby

It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright - 7 views

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    Lawrence Lessig EDUCAUSE09 keynote, November 5, 2009, Denver, a remix building upon lecture at Tokyo University. While we're finding our role in teaching and learning, I think it's important to recognize some of the cultural movements that will influence our professional practice.
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    This was a long video (of a lecture) and although many interesting points were made, the crux of the lecture was out of focus for me. The model of copyrighting in an effort that relies on sharing information - as he points out, such as education and science - does not seem to fit. So many people violate it. Yet, I do believe people should benefit from their creativity.
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    After watching about 15 minutes of this video, I believe the main point of the lecture was to bring the listeners to the point that Copy Right Law needs to be revised and a hybrid created. After all, he is a law professor. Precedents set in a court case or at the US Supreme Court level, means the law is slowly corrected or changed to accommodate new evidence; that it needs guidance from the US Constitution precepts, as determined by the US Supreme Court Justices. Or Copy Right Law changed by Congress and the introduction of new legislation guiding the issue, which in this case would be Copy Right Law and the enforcers of this law, whomever they may be.
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    Jennifer, Thanks for posting this terrific presentation from Lawrence Lessig! He's one of my personal heroes for bringing up concerns over the growing privatization of information - looking at ideas and creative work as strictly property to be bought and sold. It's interesting that Walt Disney, whose company became one of the staunchest and most powerful advocates for expanding and enforcing copyright law, benefited mightily from public domain stories - Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella, to name a few. It's doubtful that Disney would've survived without his release of the first cartoon with sound - Steamboat Willie (with Mickey Mouse). This cartoon took its premise freely from a movie made in the same year with Buster Keaton, called Steamboat Bill. That kind of informal use of other people's idea was common at the beginning of the 20th Century. Now a documentary film maker can be sued for accidentally including a Wendy's or McDonald's logo within a frame. The incredible complexity of copyright law makes it difficult to know what's legal and what's not under Fair Use. Lessig advocates the use of the new Creative Commons copyright designation (CC) - where creators/inventors can designate how their works can be used (non-commercial, commercial, credit, etc.). A great description of how Creative Commons works can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3BrAQl3so I think it's extremely important that folks in the education fields stand firm in their insistence on continuing non-commercial access and use of a variety of media and information resources - it's the lifeblood of our profession - the open exchange and evaluation of ideas. Lessig is looking to build a future that moves us in that direction, while providing Creative Commons copyright protections. He also wants us to actively advocate for changes in the existing (broken) copyright regime and has posted a http://bawolcott.brinkster.net/educ251
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    Bruce - I tried going to the link at the end of your last post and got an error - page not found.
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    Ann, Thanks for spotting this glitch! The last line of the post should read as follows: He also wants us to actively advocate for changes in the existing (broken) copyright regime, and has posted a "Certificate of Entitlement" that give us official (tongue in cheek) permission to question the current copyright legal framework. Here's a link to the certificate...
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    A excellent case is made by Johanna Blakely for not having copyright protections on creative work. In this TED TALK she talks about the fact that the fashion industry has trademark protections for logos, but not clothing design - leading to many economic benefits for the entire industry. Here are a few interesting observations from her presentation: The reason the fashion industry doesn't have any copyright protection is that the courts decided long ago is that apparel is too utilitarian to qualify for copyright protection. They didn't want a handful of designers owning the seminal building blocks of our clothing. Somebody would have to license this cuff or this sleeve, because Joe Blow owns it. Because there is no copyright protection within this industry, there is a very open ecology of creative activity. Fashion designers can sample from all of their peers designs - they can take any element from any garment in the history of fashion, and incorporate it into their own design. As a result of this high level of continuing innovation, world wide fashion trends are quickly transmitted worldwide, and the entire fashion industry thrives. Blakely calls it one of the magical side effects of having a culture of copying.
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    I should amend this last comment to say that I'm recommending this for all kinds of creative work - there should some protections in place. However, I would advocate a shorter copyright period than the current 90 years past the death of the creator. Sonny Bono, a former entertainer (Sonny and Cher) and congressman from Los Angeles who was a staunch advocate of extended copyright thought that intellectual property protections should last "forever less a day". At the time of Thomas Jefferson, copyright protection extended only 14 years past the date of creation.
ann stephens

Copyrights and Copy Wrongs - 2 views

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    As an adjunct to disccusion Jennifer began in the post on Getting our Values Around Copyright, this article was from the the first course in our eLearning class - 281. I think it is a good, concise overreview of the U.S. copyright system.
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    This was part of the first class on Intro to eLearning. I learned a lot about Copyright Law. I have a blog about this, actually two blogs: joystechtool.blogspot.com, which states my thoughts on that subject!
Colleen Dixon

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age - 3 views

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    Thought this might be of interest on the topic of copyright.
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    Logistics - not sure why exactly, but when you click to the link from diigo, you get to a login page, but if you go directly - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/education/02cheat.html - you can access the article. So that aside, the article is interesting. The statement - "The Internet may be redefining how students - who come of age with music file-sharing .. - understand the concept of authorship" summarizes yet another challenge of eLearning. Aside from legal aspects of copyrighting, if it is what we called "plagarism" is so widespread, does education need to be redefined? It is similiar to when handheld calculators become widespread, a discourse on math education determined calculators would be allowed, but students still needed to learn math basic.
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    I don't think this problem would be so wide spread if the information as open. There is a lot being done to open materials to all students. We learned about this concept in Intro to eLearning. I have sent an example: http://www.curriculumcompanion.org/openCourt/index.cfm
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    We're going to do some experimentation with plagiarism. Stay tuned!
Joy LaJeret

Differences between open and closed LMS - 4 views

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    The Blackboard Vista used by BC is a closed LMS. The Instructure Canvas is an open system.
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    My personal experience with open/free software is that support is always the catch. Although the company is offering this for free download, the question is what do that charge for new features or general service?
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    Even though this LMS is an open one, it seems on the surface to be quite useable. What I liked about it is that it is connected to Google.
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    Instructure can be open or closed. When you create a course, it gives you both licensing (copyright) and access options. Also, if a campus were to pay for a subscription and adopt it as their LMS, they could manage the access at an administrative level.
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