UCLA Pulls Videos From Course Sites After Copyright Challenge

3 February 2010

The University of California at Los Angeles has stopped posting copyrighted videos on course Web sites after complaints from an educational-media trade group, leaving other colleges worried about repercussions.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]


User-generated content – Lessig on laws that choke creativity

19 November 2009

Stanford professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition.  The Net’s most celebrated lawyer cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the “ASCAP cartel” in his argument for reviving our creative culture in this TEDTalk.

In this brief, but fast-paced talk, Lessig outlines two cultures – the read-only culture (RO) and the read/write culture (RW). In stating his case, Lessig cites these classic examples from the remix culture:

Jesus Will Survive – Jesus Christ! The Musical

The Bush-Blair Love Song