Giuseppe Valiante is reporting on proposed legislation in Canada and how it might affect college students. From the article:
Critics say the proposed rules could force teachers to pay royalties for using hyperlinks to online articles in e-mails. They also say the changes could force students and teachers to pay for using material that is currently exempt from royalty.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, fair use, higher education, Internet, online learning, policy, public domain
Jennifer Howard has a new post notes that the U.S. Copyright Office has announced exemptions for professors circumventing digital rights management protection under certain circumstances. From the U.S. Copyright Office’s text:
Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances:
(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students;
Stephen Downes has a related post on related ruling.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, fair use, openness, policy
Mike Masnick has a new post indicating that a video of a recent presentation by Larry Lessig has been taken down on accusation of copyright infringement. According Masnick, the video was taken down for using a short clip of a Warner Bros. song. From the post:
While you can still see the video on YouTube, without the audio, it’s pretty much worthless. Thankfully, the actual video is available elsewhere, where you can both hear and see it. But, really, the fact that Lessig has had two separate videos — both of which clearly are fair use — neutered due to bogus copyright infringement risks suggests a serious problem.
Also covered by Slashdot.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, fair use, openness
Radio Berkman has a new podcast on making legal information available in the public domain. From the post:
If you think this is a small issue – note that Americans spend some $10 billion a year just to access legal documents, everything from local building codes to Supreme Court records.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, fair use, open content, public domain
Jesse Stay has a new post noting that Google Buzz pulls in the full-text of posts and strips any ads that might accompany them. From the post:
To be clear, I’m fine with them either displaying the ads that I put there (and allowing me to monetize off the other ads that are on the page), or just summarizing the article and encouraging users to click through to my site. I’m not okay with Google scraping my content, stripping my ads, altering my content, and pushing it out for them to get 100% of the revenues off of something I spent time and money making.
Alison Flood is reporting that thousands of authors are opting out of the Google Book Settlement. From the article:
“My feelings were, in the end, that I doubted I would lose out by opting out, whereas I might do by opting in. Also there was the principle that copyright is important,” said novelist Marika Cobbold, author of books including Guppies for Tea and Shooting Butterflies
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Tagged commons, copy right, creative commons, fair use, google, Google's Settlement, policy, public domain
BBC News is reporting that many consumers misunderstand basic copyright law. From the post:
In a poll of 2,026 people, some 73% said that they did not know what they could copy or record.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, creative commons, fair use, open content, openness, public domain
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Tagged commons, fair use, google, Google's Settlement, openness, public domain
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, fair use, google, Google's Settlement, public domain
Mike Masnick at Techdirt is reporting that the public interest group Public Knowledge has published a statement regarding copyright reform. From the post:
I think it’s great that Public Knowledge is pushing this (with the assistance, apparently, of the Stanford Cyberlaw Clinic and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law), though of course the chances of this actually getting anywhere seem slim.
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