Thought this might interest some of you...
From Scott Leslie's EdTechPost
<http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000807.html>
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=923465
This is an important new paper by William McGeveran and William Fisher
from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It's not exactly earth
shattering content for people regularly working on the issue of sharing
and reusing digital resources for education, but it is fairly
comprehensive (from a US perspective at least) and done by lawyers, the
type of document that can potentially have some legitimacy with
politicians and other decision makers (and yes, I believe in faeries
too!) The Mellon Foundation is to be commended for funding it. I loved
their case studies, especially the one that has a media prof cracking
DRM controls with freely available tools so as to be able to create a
clips reel for his class. That would never happen ;-) - SWL
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Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser
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Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
Tel: 0131 451 3278 Fax: 0131 451 3327
Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/
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