Copyright/Copyleft: the digital years
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World IP Day: 26th April
World IP Day celebrates creativity and innovation:
:: to raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life;
:: to increase understanding of how protecting IP rights helps promote creativity and innovation;
:: to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe;
:: to encourage respect for the IP rights of others
:: WIPO ... :: UK IP Office
...and DON'T MISS THIS...
:: Guardian story of boy of five who took out a patent....read on...
:: Listen to him tell his story...Wow!
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Penguins on the loose.....
Penguin books have announced that ... they will experiment with selling "DRM-free" digital versions of its audiobooks on the internet. Marjorie Scardino, Chief Executive of Pearson, who own Penguin, said ... "I don't think we can be worried about every incursion from electronic selling and electronic use. ..."
:: Full story ... and ... What's DRM?...
:: About Penguin Books ...
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South West Grid for Learning: LA workshop
Wednesday 19th March 2008; Brislington CLC, Bristol.
'Copyright - Copywrong' workshop led by Marshall Mateer
:: The Programme
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Larry Lessig speaks...
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Larry Lessig talks to the TED March 2007 conference on 'How Creativity is being Strangled by the Law'. References include John Philip Sousa on community, celestial copyrights, "ASCAP cartel", several nifty mash-ups and his take on kids kulture today. ... Click to operate - maybe twice. ... Direct link if you want the embedd code or info on TED.
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David Puttnam on "the public interest".
The last section of his Creative Archive speech - November 2006 - read by Paul Gerhardt of the BBC.
(Click the arrowhead twice...to listen)
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David Puttnam on The Creative Archive
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Gower report on intellectual property - out now!
Hurry Now.... Gower Report
Gower says..."enabling access to content for libraries and education establishments - to ensure that the UK's cultural heritage can be adequately stored for preservation and accessed for learning. The Review recommends clarifying exceptions to copyright to make them fit for the digital age..."
Something to go on there then?
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British Library Intellectual Property Manifesto
British Library published it's Intellectual Property Manifesto A Balance'.
:: Four pages, pdf. http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/ipmanifesto.pdf Good summary of the issues...but much more to go on this subject; espcially about DRM and public archives/funding and about "orphans" and preservation in the digital age.
:: Read the on-line introduction
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Gowers Intellectual Property Review
Gowers Review of Intellectual Property should publish it's findings Autumn 2006. details of the review which will "examine all elements of the IP system, to ensure that it delivers incentives while minimising inefficiency. This may provide some of the basic framework for the education sector to make progress on these issues for schools, teachers, students, etc.
The All Party Internet Group (APIG) published it's findings on "digital rights managment" (DRM) earlier in the year: APIG findings
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Banging the DRM for education.
NAACE response to DCMS on DRM.
The RBCs work with British Pathe and Audio Networks on education licences provides good evidence that their are alternatives to closed-down DRM and that schools, teachers and pupils will respect creative rights when provided with opportunities to express their creativity in return and, in so doing, add to the commonwealth of ideas and assets.
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The Debate Hots Up!
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EMBC Workshop - 24th Jan 2006
Eight LEA staff involved with the EMBC digital video project Our Shorts met with Clare Usher and James Swain of the EMBC team and Marshall Mateer the RBC Consultant to explore the use of Creative Commons for pupils' and teachers' work in the project.
OUR SHORTS
Details of the project at the Our Shorts area on the EMBC portal
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IPR and copyright and the development of the NEN
The RBC have identified IPR and copyright as essential elements of their work in developing services through the NEN.
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UKERENA are exploring the requirements for an IPR policy for the NEN Video Conferencing service which has recently completed a successful pilot with RBC and with national museums in the Cultural sector.
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The UK CIE project
Becta are working with other national agencies in Education and Learning and with Government departments in the Common Information Environment (CIE) project.
October 2005 a CIE studyon the potential use of Creative Commons in the public sector was published.
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Adelphi Charter
In October 2005 the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) launched it's Adelphi Charter which address the issues of patenting, copyright and IPR. "Can current intellectual property legislation cope with the shifting technological and social contexts of the 21st century?"
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CReative Commons in the UK
UK versions for England & Wales and for Scotland of the Creative Commons Licences have been established. This ensures that the CC licences are worded to be compliant with UK law as well as it's international dimensions.
See CC worldwide for international developments.
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EU developments.
The Minerva (goddess of wisdom and the arts) programme has supported the co-ordination of policies and exchange of knowledge across the EU. The Michael platform uses open source software to create digital cultural heritage resources and an interface to enable searching for descriptions of digital cultural descriptions. Other programmes have explored the extension of copyright to allow work to be shared across EU territories.
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E2BN - May 2005
In May E2BN held two copyright workshops in their regional conference. The first version of the General Model was an outcome of this work.
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Copyright notice: the web pages
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