MAR 16 Creative Commons Policy Roundup
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Timothy Vollmer
Mar 16, 2017, 5:26:39 PM3/16/17
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1. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, seems to think that DRM in the browser is a foregone conclusion, and apparently not worth fighting over anymore.
2. Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week was awesome, with over 142 institutions participating with blog posts, audio-visual presentations, graphics, and other materials supporting education and advocacy around this important limitation to copyright.
3. ResearchGate is a platform that routinely engages in massive-scale copyright infringement of published works. Recently the platform has acquired "$52.6 million in funding from a range of sources including the Wellcome Trust, Bill Gates, and for some bizarre reason, Ashton Kutcher."
4. UC-Berkeley is removing online course content that doesn't align with access standards for those with disabilities. It's unclear whether or how the university is working to make those resources accessible. Also, removing content from the open web seems to be partly in response to weary faculty, who say, "moving our content behind authentication allows us to better protect instructor intellectual property from ‘pirates’ who have reused content for personal profit without consent."
5. EU copyright reform advocates launched savethememe.net, with a mashup video that explains the dangers behind the Commission's plan to adopt a copyright filtering mechanism for user generated uploads.
6. Publishers that sued an Indian copy shop for reproducing copies of educational materials for students have withdrawn their appeal (after a judge ruled in favor of the copy shops).
7. Are universities finally waking up to the value of copyright? Hopefully.
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