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Nigel Robertson

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property - The MIT Press - 0 views

  • At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world. A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online.
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    "At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world. A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online."
Derek White

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property - The MIT Press - 1 views

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    (Note - free ebook version) - At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world. A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online.
Nigel Robertson

Libraries and the changing role of creators and consumers - 0 views

  • For the past two years, Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing, California Digital Library, has been involved in an effort to coordinate the services of the library and University Press in order to better support and manage the University of California’s scholarly output. The goal of the initiative—the University as Publisher—is to help the university reclaim its core intellectual asset (i.e., the knowledge it produces) and assert itself more powerfully in the marketplace of scholarly communication. In the process, the university shores up its values, and its value. “Despite the daunting complexity of the task, universities must take responsibility for managing their own scholarly output or risk losing control of that core intellectual capital,” she says. “If we don’t, someone else will. And it won’t be pretty. We’re talking about our institutions’ major asset. “If we miss the boat on this, we hand off opportunities to partner with our faculty around issues of intellectual property, curation and preservation standards, and transformative models of scholarly communication. We simply become the ‘buyer.’ And, we risk getting locked into untenable licensing agreements in order to gain or regain access to the very research that our own faculty are producing.”
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    Article on trends in publishing and why the university library needs to become a publisher.
Nigel Robertson

Collisions in the Digital Paradigm: Information Rights and Copy Rights | The IT Countre... - 0 views

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    Judge David Harvey with a treatise on copyright in the digital age.
Nigel Robertson

Against a bill of rights and principles for learning in the digital age | Richard Hall'... - 1 views

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    Critique of the recent flurry around the 'Learners bill of rights' and placing it in a colonial framework.
Tracey Morgan

The rise of human-computer cooperation - Shyam Sankar - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Brute computing force alone can't solve the world's problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems (like catching terrorists or identifying huge hidden trends) is not a question of finding the right algorithm, but rather the right symbiotic relationship between computation and human creativity."
Nigel Robertson

Welcome to The Right Question Institute | The Right Question Institute - 1 views

  • The Right Question Institute (RQI)* promotes the use of a simple, powerful, evidence-based strategy that helps all people, no matter their level of income, literacy or education, learn to help themselves.
  • Make Just One Change presents an argument and a methodology for how teachers can integrate the teaching of the skill of question formulation into their regular classroom practice. The simple shift in practice, from teachers asking questions of students to students learning to generate and improve their own questions, leads to significant cognitive, affective and behavioral changes in students.
Nigel Robertson

SunLive - Tomorrow's IT staff - The Bays' News First - 0 views

  • What all of the employers want is the right attitude and aptitude. With these, any gaps in the knowledge and experience of a student fresh from studies can easily be overcome.
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    The key attributes that a computer grad needs today. "What all of the employers want is the right attitude and aptitude. With these, any gaps in the knowledge and experience of a student fresh from studies can easily be overcome.  Heck, the industry moves so fast that they need to be updating those on the first day."
Nigel Robertson

Web2.0 Rights project - 0 views

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    Web2Rights is a JISC project, funded from 1st November 2007 - 31st March 2009, whose purpose was initially to develop practical, pragmatic and relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other legal issues toolkits to support the projects funded within the JISC Users and Innovation Programme (U&I) in their engagement with next generation technologies.  The Web2Rights team, comprised of lawyers, consultants, learning technologists and pedagogic experts focussed upon the need to address cultural and practical obstacles in engaging with Web2.0, IPR and other legal issues. Working in close collaboration with JISC Legal and focussing upon the specific issues raised by the U&I community of users, they have created a number of resources to address a variety of legal issues which might arise.
Nigel Robertson

One MOOC professor won't let students know the right answers | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    An account of someone who isn't bothered about learning and won't ive feedback to students in a Mooc. Scale might be a reason but that's not the rationale being used.
Nigel Robertson

Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    "R is an open source statistical programming language"
Nigel Robertson

The Challenge of Non-Disposable Assignments - 0 views

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    How do we move out of the content based right/wrong assignment? Some good thinking here.
Nigel Robertson

Why Do Copyright Industry Profits Get To Be The Yardstick For Civil Liberties? | Techdirt - 0 views

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    Civil liberty and freedom versus copyright. Which has the best moral right to win?
Nigel Robertson

The online copyright war: the day the internet hit back at big media | Technology | The... - 0 views

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    Guardian Article. "As the demise of the Sopa anti-piracy act showed, established arguments for protecting the rights of content creators are almost impossible to apply to a digital world"
Nigel Robertson

Digital Living Network Alliance - DLNA - 0 views

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    If you own two devices, you want them to be compatible. The same is true for three devices, or four or ten. DLNA Certified® products are built to work together, even though they come from many different companies. Finally, you have the freedom to choose the DLNA Certified device that's right for you, regardless of the manufacturer, and to create a digital network that fits your life.
Nigel Robertson

Neil Young is right - piracy is the new radio - 1 views

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    Piracy allows the spread of music & culture and increases sales of goods.
Nigel Robertson

Lifelong learning and information literacy - 0 views

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    Information literacy is a human right, according to the Australian Library and Information Association.   Contains a link toe Australian National Library definition of Info-Lit
Nigel Robertson

What's right and what's wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs - 0 views

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    "Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features of the Coursera MOOCs, and the lessons she has learned to date about teaching and learning from these courses. The video is well worth watching, just for this."
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    Tony Bates critique of Coursera and Koller's take on Moocs.
Nigel Robertson

WIPO's Broadcasting Treaty is back: a treaty to end the public domain, fair use and Cre... - 1 views

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    Anything that is broadcast will have a separate copyright status and can over-rule public domain and CC rights. 
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