Below are posts associated with the “copyright” tag.
🔗 linkblog: The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers - The New York Times'
Good coverage of a worrying development. I’m sympathetic to authors’ worries here, but I also think they’re wrong. If digital is different than the physical, copyright considerations need to be more generous, NOT stricter. The Internet Archive is an important service, and I’m worried about the future.
🔗 linkblog: Academic Book About Emojis Can’t Include The Emojis It Talks About Because Of Copyright | Techdirt'
This is dumb. Copyright is important, but this example shows how much we’ve made it overreach.
🔗 linkblog: The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed | WIRED'
This is a wild, compelling story that I missed when it first came out. Glad to be reading it now.
🔗 linkblog: Chokepoint Capitalism can break you free from big tech and big content - The Verge'
It’s a long interview, so I didn’t read the whole thing, but what I did read made me want to read this book even more. I have a copy, I just need to open it up.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook Is So Sure Its Erroneous Blocking Of Music Is Right, There’s No Option To Say It’s Wrong | Techdirt'
Intellectual property is important, but copyright filters are an absolute mess.
why 'open access' isn't enough
I just barely microblogged something about what I want to say here, but over the past hour, it’s been nagging at me more and more, and I want to write some more about it.
I was introduced to academia through educational technology, and I was introduced to educational technology through a class at BYU taught by David Wiley. This class was not about educational technology, but David’s passion for Web 2.