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Jean-Marie Cognet

Universities 'uncertain' about lecture-capture copyright | THE News - 1 views

  • Copyright and intellectual property policy on lecture capture ‘evolving’, says report, but institutions should provide supportive advice to academics
  • Universities will take “risks” on copyright and intellectual property rights infringement when recording lectures because there is still so much “uncertainty” within the sector as to what is appropriate policy, according to the authors of new research into the issue.
  • nearly three-quarters of UK institutions started lecture recording in 2016, but 40 per cent of respondents to the report’s survey said that their institutions only “kind of” had policy documents on the topic.
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  • Their report, which surveyed 33 universities, found in almost all cases that the responsibility for copyright issues in lecture content lay with the lecturer but a “significant amount of the policy documents did not make these responsibilities clear”. The paper recommends that universities “make clear” who is responsible, but also “provide supportive copyright advice…on issues such as the use of third party material in recorded lectures”.
  • “There has been a process of trying to harmonise copyright law across Europe…but what tends to happen with Moocs, they tend to rely on Creative Commons licences (enabling the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work), [so] it is possible to create resources that can be openly shared.”
Florent Thiery

next generation video: Introducing Daala - 0 views

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    The next-generation VP9 and HEVC codecs are the latest incremental refinements of a basic codec design that dates back 25 years to h.261. This conservative, linear development strategy evolving a proven design has yielded reliable improvement with relatively low risk, but the law of diminishing returns is setting in. Recent performance increases are coming at exponentially increasing computational cost. Daala tries for a larger leap forward- by first leaping sideways- to a new codec design and numerous novel coding techniques. In addition to the technical freedom of starting fresh, this new design consciously avoids most of the patent thicket surrounding mainstream block-DCT-based codecs. At its very core, for example, Daala is based on lapped transforms, not the traditional DCT.
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