http://opencontent.org/blog pragmatism over zeal Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:39:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's make the CC By-NC-SA versus First Sale battle more specific. Jamie Boyle's new book The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind is licensed CC By-NC-SA and is available for purchase from Amazon. If I purchase a copy of the book from Amazon - in other words, if I ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/724 A short version, a long version, and a surprise. The short version: who has precedence, the CC NC clause or the First Sale doctrine? The long version: First, a little background on the First Sale doctrine from Wikipedia (normal caveats apply): The first-sale doctrine is a limitation on copyright that was recognized by ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/717 What do you think about while you stare at the ceiling, unable to sleep? Recently, I've been thinking a lot about license compatibility issues. Specifically, I've been wondering how I can communicate to people the difficulty copyleft causes for would-be remixers. Until you get knee-deep in it, you can't really understand ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/706 Still waiting for mine to arrive, but Geeks Bearing Gifts looks to be absolutely fabulous. Whether you like him or not, Ted Nelson is probably one of the most visionary people of our age. As I've written about in a number of places, his work on primedia, transclusion, and reuse ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/704 In his commentary on CC's new report on the state of OER licensing, Stephen finds an opportunity to express his continuing support for the noncommercial clause: In the full report you find their recommendations, including machine readability of license terms, license standardization and license compatibility (which is once ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/697 I finally met Michael Feldstein at the recent The Open Forum 2008. It was a really fun meeting with incredible food (warm cookies and cold milk for the morning break? are you kidding me?!?). However, the most personally rewarding part of the meeting for me came afterward, in Michael's brain ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/695 This should be the largest of all indicators that there is a huge problem with CC's NC clause - Creative Commons is currently hosting a survey asking the community to help them understand what the term means. I mean, they're only the authors of the license! :) Head on over ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/691 So far the response to the redesign of the Introduction to Open Education course has been great (already coverage in the Chronicle and the syllabus has been online less than a week). There's been good critical feedback as well; the newly revised syllabus has a completely revamped Grading section based ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/686 President-elect Obama's Change.gov website has formally adopted the Creative Commons Attribution license as it's standard copyright license for the site. High marks for President-elect Obama on this! Now, if we can just get Lessig appointed as Copyright Czar we'll have a prayer of seeing real copyright reform during the next ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/683 Winter semester I'm teaching a new version of the Introduction to Open Education course here at BYU. I'm as excited for this course as I've ever been for any - partly because the course has been completely redesigned as a massively multiplayer role-playing game. From the Syllabus: Instructional design faculty are ... http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/680