Jessica E. Vascellaro at the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is unsatisfied by the revised Google Book Settlement. From the post:
In particular, the books giant [Amazon] argued that the agreement overreaches and violates the U.S. Copyright Act. “The (settlement) continues to give Google exclusive rights likely to lead to a monopoly,” it read.
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Tagged google, Google's Settlement, open content, openness, policy, public domain
The 4C Initiative is announcing a free webinar introducing OER on Feb. 4. Thanks to DCU LINK for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education
KarenC has posted some details about the Beyond Borders Open Education Conference. The conference will be held in April at Oxford.
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Tagged conference, e-learning, oer, online learning, Open Education
Stuart Shieber has posted Harvard’s response to a recent white house request for comment on open access policies. From the response:
First, taxpayers deserve access to the results of taxpayer-funded research. Second, public access makes research as visible and useful as it can be, maximizing the return on the public’s enormous investment in the research. Third, public access accelerates research and all the benefits that depend on research, from public health to economic development.
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Tagged journal, library, OATP, open access, policy, public domain
Stephen Downes notes the release of “The Public Domain Manifesto.” From the manifesto:
The public domain, as we understand it, is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually associated with copyright protection, either because it is free from any copyright protection or because the right holders have decided to remove these barriers. It is the basis of our self-understanding as expressed by our shared knowledge and culture.
Also linked to by Cory Doctorow.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness, policy, public domain
The website Instructables has a ten-step guide to negotiating a Creative Commons license with content creators.
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Karen Fasimpaur has a second post on open textbook savings. From the post:
To the extent that the state-developed program is chosen by a large number of schools, the state could save considerable amounts of money. If the state-developed program is not chosen by many schools, the state will not save money. Of course, Texas’ recent change in legislation that incentivizes schools to choose less expensive programs may influence this.
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Tagged K-12, open content, Open Education, openness, policy
“markuos” has a new post on openness and the LMS ATutor. From the post:
Because of the open ethos of ATutor, there are links from their support website to Open Educational Resources (a vlog post about OER). And significantly, there is a module available to integrate MERLOT resources into ATutor hosted courses.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, Open Education, openness
Mike Linksvayer has a new post announcing that CC Learn will be reduced in staff and scope. From the post:
We’ve decided that we can best support the open education and OER communities by focusing our resources and support where we are strongest and provide the most unique value. This means engaging the open education community as legal and technical experts rather than as participants in a broad conversation about the potentialities of open education — which we fully believe in, making the need to support open education in the most leveraged fashion we can all the more compelling.
Sharp reaction from Stephen Downes and David Wiley.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, Open Education
Marc Perry at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus is reporting that the University of Rochester is working on software specifically for open access. From the article:
The idea is to get professors and graduate students to contribute their papers and dissertations to the repository by combining it with a Web-based workspace that accomplishes lots of other stuff they need to write up that research.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, OATP, open content, open source
