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Amanda Marie

Robertson joins suit vs. NCAA - Yahoo! Sports - 0 views

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  • The new complaint (750k PDF), filed in the United States District Court in San Francisco and obtained by Yahoo! Sports, argues that, “Mr. Robertson’s collegiate image continues to be licensed without his consent to this day … and sold for profit without approval by Mr. Robertson, and without any opportunity for him to participate in the licensing opportunity generated by the use and sale of his own collegiate image.”
  • The NCAA has argued they maintain the rights to a players’ likeness forever in legal briefings. It believes it, its marketing arm – Collegiate Licensing Company – and partner companies Thought Equity Motion and Collegiate Images, LLC are compliant with the law. The organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the additional complaints, although it traditionally rejects comment until it has time to review legal documents.
  • At stake is a share of the estimated $4 billion market for collegiate licensed merchandise, a business that has exploded over the last 15 years.
  • Amanda Marie on 28 Jan 11
     
    Personality rights, a subset of intellectual property/copyright, is a major issue among players in the NCAA.  
Amanda Marie

A Sensible Compromise | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson - 0 views

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  • Amanda Marie on 04 Mar 11
     
    Harvard students rally alongside the MPAA.
Malika T

State of the Art: Public Access to Publicly Funded Educational Materials | GETideas.org - 0 views

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Copyright Education TAACCCT Creative Commons

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  • Malika T on 07 Mar 11
     
    Creative Commons is facilitating the use and reuse of educational materials. According to this post written by a policy coordinator at the nonprofit organization, it can potentially allow students to save money they would be spending on textbooks. A professor at the University of MIchigan published a $10 book in 11 days because he adapted a book "offered under an open content license"
  • Andrea R. on 11 Mar 11
     
    The use of Creative Commons licenses to broaden access to educational materials represents a general shift in academia. Although universities have often controlled this access to knowledge, these open source resources allow most people to educate themselves without the high barriers to entry, such as tuition. Like the MIT Open CourseWare, "iTunes U" compiles lectures from various universities. NYU actually just sent out its IT newsletter e-mail today, which contained a notice about its Open Education Pilot program. http://www.nyu.edu/its/connect/w11/openedpilot.html Even though it seems like universities are open to sharing lecture materials and other educational resources under the Creative Commons license, how lenient do you think these schools will be? Would they truly offer alternative textbooks in which the college has to forfeit their profit from their bookstore, for example?
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