The resources listed below are worth going through if you need to get familiar with the big picture - and it's big. Copyright is a very important issue in the current world and there are valuable resources regarding copyright on the Educational CyberPlayGround .
On 10/19/05, one of my MIT friend's daughter shadowed me for a day at work as part of a school project. One of the good things about spending time with children is that it forces you to explain this in simple terms. That day, I drew lots of drawings. So here is another installment Erik explaining things with drawings.
Otto von Bismarck quipped, "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." I've seen sausages made. I've seen laws made. Both processes are pleasant in comparison to the way anti-copying technology agreements are made.
The optimal level for copyright has been a matter for extensive debate
over the last decade. This paper contributes several new results on this
issue divided into two parts. In the first, a parsimonious theoretical
model is used to prove several novel propositions about the optimal
level of protection. Specifically, we demonstrate that (a) optimal
copyright falls as the costs of production go down (for example as a
result of digitization) and that (b) the optimal level of copyright will, in
general, fall over time.
Copyright Information Sheets for Schools
The Sony Betamax Supreme Court decision was one of the most
important "fair use" decisions of the last 25 years, but it's been a
constant source of frustration for Marybeth Peters, the Register of
Copyrights in the US since 1994. As head of the Copyright Office, Peters
is in charge of the triennial DMCA anticircumvention review process.
BBspot has obtained secret documents which RIAA lawyers use to determine whether to file a lawsuit against a copyright violator. These documents give insight into the RIAA's decision-making process, and could help people avoid lawsuits in the future. We offer these documents as a public service.
It's no secret that some content owners don't seem to understand how the DMCA works—that, or they simply don't care when sending mass takedown notices. This seems to be the case with the recent saga of legal maneuvers between the National Football League (NFL) and Brooklyn Law School professor Wendy Seltzer. The two have been going back and forth with DMCA-related "requests" since early February [
Lawrence Lessig is doing a series of 6 presentations on what Congress should do about Internet Policy. We may be most interested in looking at Copyright: Remix Culture, Network Neutrality, and Harmful to Minors Material.
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The resources listed below are worth going through if you need to get familiar with the big picture - and it's big. Copyright is a very important issue in the current world and there are valuable resources regarding copyright on the Educational CyberPlayGround .
On 10/19/05, one of my MIT friend's daughter shadowed me for a day at work as part of a school project. One of the good things about spending time with children is that it forces you to explain this in simple terms. That day, I drew lots of drawings. So here is another installment Erik explaining things with drawings.
Lawrence Lessig is doing a series of 6 presentations on what Congress should do about Internet Policy. We may be most interested in looking at Copyright: Remix Culture, Network Neutrality, and Harmful to Minors Material.
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