Tag: Copyright
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iTunes U 2.0 to be DRMed?
According to this article (with some great comments) at The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Apparently it’s the unis themselves that are wanting DRM. Ok, fair enough if you think about it – that way they can control who gets access and maybe make a little coin on some courses. But one of the things that I…
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Don’t Download this Song!
Kudos Weird Al for poking a pointy stick into RIAA and their sort! The song is pretty cool as well.
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Education and Copyright
Scott over at the EdTechPost as dug out a pretty interesting paper on copyright, DRM and other obstacles to the use of digital media in the classroom. This is timely as I noticed on Engadget a story about the CEA saying that the RIAA is actually hurting the industry with all it’s DRM nonsense. When…
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Yotophoto
I don’t know if it’s been out there for a while, but working with the 2006 Cohort, one of the students pointed out Yotophoto an open source and creative commons photo site. I’m currently working through video production with them and had mentioned that in a pinch if they or their students didn’t want to…
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Copies vs Links
Hopefully a short dump of ideas while I’m thinking about how to solve a problem with a database here. Kelly’s comments on the field of Science putting more value on links got me thinking about – of all things – Google. Created by two scientists who pretty much used the same idea that was behind…