http://connect.educause.edu/browse/content/lib_item/4928,4973,131,1171,348 http://connect.educause.edu/browse/content/lib_item/4928,4973,131,1171,348 http://connect.educause.edu/educause/images/e_rss.png events, concepts, and conversation from EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE Podcast Crew EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Our podcasts provide information about a range of topics including Leadership, Policy and Law, Teaching and Learning, Emerging Technologies, Open Source, Research Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, and Digitial Libraries. http://connect.educause.edu/browse/content/node/691/list/feed Recent library resources tagged with Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Open Source; OSS; and Copyright Infringement. en http://connect.educause.edu/display/37051 "After months of criticism that its patent policies had the potential to squelch important education projects, Blackboard on Thursday announced a "patent pledge" under which it vowed not to assert its patent rights to sue open source projects or home-grown software used by colleges and universities." http://connect.educause.edu/display/37051#comments CMS Copyright Infringement Intellectual Property Open Source OSS Patents Contributed by Organizations or Campuses Articles, Papers, and Reports HTML Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:47:54 -0600 drupal 37051 at http://connect.educause.edu http://connect.educause.edu/display/35842 The economics of information goods suggest the need for institutional intervention to address the problem of revenue extraction from investments in those resources characterized by high fixed costs of production and low marginal costs of reproduction and distribution. Solutions to the appropriation issue, such as copyright, are supposed to guarantee an incentive for innovative activities at the price of few vices marring their rationale. In the case of digital information resources, apart from conventional inefficiencies, copyright shows an extra vice since it might be used perversely as a tool to "hijack" and privatise collectively provided open source and open content knowledge assemblages, even in the case in which the original information was not otherwise copyrightable. Whilst the impact of hijacking on open source software development may be uncertain or uneven, some risks are clear in the case of open content works. The paper presents some evidence of malicious effects of hijacking in the Internet search market by discussing the case of The Open Directory Project. Furthermore, it calls for a wider use of novel institutional remedies such as copyleft and Creative Commons licensing, built upon the paradigm of copyright customisation. http://connect.educause.edu/display/35842#comments Copyright Copyright Infringement First Monday Open Source OSS Contributed by Organizations or Campuses Articles, Papers, and Reports HTML Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:55:02 -0500 drupal 35842 at http://connect.educause.edu