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Australian Fair Use Discussion Paper
May 6th, 2005 Comments Off
The Attorney General’s Dept has posted a discussion paper on the implementation of ‘fair use’ in Australia post DMCA/FTA. Read it here
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Broadband Reality
May 5th, 2005 Comments Off
Broadband uptake is still woeful. From Whirlpool – “OptusNet announced today that its subscriber base has passed the 350,000 mark after adding 63,000 subscribers in the last three months. Optus Consumer MD Allen Lew attributed the growth to the bundling of Optus landline, mobile and ADSL products. The company’s success “stems from the increasing strength [...]
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Open Source As Culture/Culture As Open Source
May 5th, 2005 Comments Off
Siva Viyahadyanathan wrote an excellent introductory book to US Copyright, the DMCA etc a few years back titled Copyrights & Copywrongs. Here he is again with an article on Open Source. “Abstract: The Open Source model of peer production, sharing, revision, and peer review has distilled and labeled the most successful human creative habits into [...]
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m-learning with mobile phones
May 2nd, 2005 2 Comments
This pdf reports on a pilot project and makes recommendations regarding the use of mobile phones, text messaging, etc in a learning program for disadvantaged youth. It includes numerous links to further research. http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/projects/media/txt_me_recommendations.pdf A little while back I was appalled whilst attending an Adobe product launch (for education priced premier elements and photoshop elements [...]
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Public domain and museums/galleries
May 2nd, 2005 Comments Off
Gara sent me this earlier in the week. “From CNI – Project Briefing: Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility Kenneth Hamma Executive Director, Digital Policy & Initiatives J. Paul Getty Trust Instead of asserting intellectual property rights in images of public domain works as nearly every [...]
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Welcome . . . “stay a while, stay forever”
May 2nd, 2005 1 Comment
Welcome to the first post of our new cross-departmental blog. The purpose of this blog is to create a place where we can all centrally post articles and aggregate links, comments, discussions and other stuff. The photo above was taken when Pete and I were in Berlin presenting at Transemdiale 2004. The location where we [...]
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