Leigh, I'm with you on all this. And given the UNESCO education for all (EFA) initiative I'd like to see WikiEducator go full on with a fair use approach, particularly for the curriculum that fell within EFA. I believe a legal challenge of content used within this EFA realm would have a hard time gaining traction and I also believe the "groundswell" would be a potential PR nightmare for those who did try...
Peter On Dec 31, 8:22 am, "Leigh Blackall" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Steve, so you do! > > In the opening paragraph of your article you say something that I think > needs closer attention, and which is something I know Minhaaj has been > stoking: > > "These licenses depend on copyright to work..." > > Copyright seems to be only of use to institutions, yet copyright is > obviously not working all over the Internet, in fact it is blatantly > disregarded (thankfully) in most quarters. Is this disregard a form of civil > disobedience, and is this disobedience winning us more freedoms through > sheer numbers? > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Steve Foerster <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Leigh wrote: > > > > Fair Use (and Dealings) is the right of educators, as it is for > > journalists > > > and documentary makers. Instead of religiously playing into the hands of > > > copyright fascism with strict adherence to copyleft (and so limiting our > > > educational opportunities to only content meeting "free cultural > > > definitions), Wikieducator should aggressively lead the charge (in a non > > > violent way) and stand up for Fair Use/Dealings, and grow the security of > > > that ground for educators everywhere. > > > I totally agree: > > >http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2007/11/14/fair-use-as-a-co... > > > Cheers, > > > -=Steve=- > > > -- > > Stephen H. Foerster > >http://wikieducator.org/steve > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall+64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy > Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.comhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
