EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Copyright

Get Me Out of the Middle!

elilly — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:29:13 -0600

"File sharing serves as a tuning fork for an entirely new orchestra of digital communication, interaction, and social expectation. We in higher education must provide a clear, calm, ringing voice in defining
the terms of the new world when we believe our goals and values are important not only to us but to society."

Sharing Visual Arts Images for Educational Use: Finding a New Angle of Repose

ckeller — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:04:20 -0500

Educational institutions should be actively rethinking how they are accessing and using copyrighted visual arts images, and they should be exploring an approach that seeks to address copyright owners’ interests, as well as users’ needs, in an environment that encourages increased, shared access to these images for teaching and study.

Naughty Bit

ckeller — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:12:19 -0500

"DRM technology represents an attempt to treat bits like atoms. "Watermarks" allow two otherwise identical collections of bits to be viewed as different objects. Biometric-based encryption can restrict access to only the current "holder" of the bits. Elaborate check-in/check-out schemes constrain a particular set of bits to "exist" in only one place at a time. Rather than rethinking their approach to copyright and developing new business models appropriate to the digital world, proponents of DRM technology are devoting their ingenuity and energy to trying to make bits behave like atoms in order to preserve the old ways. "

The Future for Higher Education: Sunrise or Perfect Storm?

drupal — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:36:48 -0600

The technology-driven disruptions of the knowledge economy offer higher education an enormous opportunity to remake ourselves - this time around collaboration, exploration, and engagement with the wider world.

A Review of Creative Commons and Science Commons

drupal — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:56:58 -0500

The author gives an overview of the creative commons and science commons licenses and publishing options.

Oldies, Music Rights, and the Digital Age

drupal — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:10:23 -0500

The author discusses the issue of copyright, oldies, and digital preservation. The author talks about efforts being made to create digital sound repositories for music record prior to 1970.

In Praise of Sharing

drupal — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:46:31 -0500

The author discusses the transformation on the college campus from the free exchange of ideas to the growing movement to lock down those ideas as "property".

Copyright: What Makes a Use “Fair”?

drupal — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:11:26 -0500

The author discusses copyright's fail use doctrine.

Copyright, Civil Rights, and Middle Age

drupal — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:26:04 -0500

The author discusses the political issues that are attached to the current fight over digital copyright and file sharing technologies.

drupal — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:17:26 -0500

The author discusses the new Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization(TEACH)Act of 2001 and how it relates to the copyright act of 1976. The TEACH Act will amend the 1976 Actto meet the current needs of Distance Education and permits institutions to extend "fair use" to electronic documents.