The Free Speech Critique of Copyright Mistake Did you hear that Florida just outlawed sex? This was pointed out by Southern Fried Scientist, after reading of a Florida bill that prohibits “knowing sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal.” Humans are, after all, animals, so by definition, Florida has just made normal sexual relations a crime. Obviously, that’s not what happened. As Rick Hasen at Election Law Blog points out, “A court facing a question of interpreting the statute would almost certainly read the statute’s use of the term ‘animals’ as ‘non-human animals,’ both to avoid absurdity and to conform with (1) the intent of the drafters; (2) the purpose of the statute; and (3) a commonly used (if scientifically inaccurate) understanding of the term ‘animal’ to exclude humans.” But it does provide a good example of language in the law. Underneath the veneer of the plain meaning of language in law is a mass of complex and sometimes inscrutable precepts. Law professor Frederick Schauer describes this better than I do:
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Libre.fm — Découvrez de la nouvelle musique YouTube Trends Audio CC Malaysia, where are we now? A mixtape, open data and more CC Malaysia Mixtape 2015 by Muid Latif under CC BY NC ND A guest post by CC Malaysia Lead, Muid Latif. In the recent years, Malaysia has been more active in adopting open culture. For example, last December I had the chance to approach several local musicians and producers who are familiar with Creative Commons licenses on SoundCloud to find out if they were keen to have their music under a CC license. Our community also wants to play a greater role in open data. In this context, I have recently had the chance to contact the founder of the Big Data Malaysia network, Tirath Ramdas, about his view on open data here in Malaysia and concerns about citizen engagement. In the near future, we would love to see Malaysia join the Open Government Partnership (OGP), following the Big Data Analytics Framework goal to have the framework ready by the end of this year and in line with the Digital Malaysia 354 Roadmap (DM354 Roadmap).
Independent Lens . AT HOME IN UTOPIA . The Film “This was all an experiment. The people that started the experiment thought, ‘We’ll end up with heaven on earth.’” —Paul “Pete” Rosenblum In the mid-1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish garment workers catapulted themselves out of the urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx. Adjacent to the newly opened subway corridor and in the midst of empty fields, they constructed the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a.k.a. “the Coops,” where they practiced the utopian ideals of an equitable and just society. AT HOME IN UTOPIA captures their epic struggle across two generations as the Coops residents experiment with breaking down barriers of race and ethnicity, and championing radical ideas that would someday transform the American workplace. But after World War II, amidst growing anti-communist sentiment and McCarthyism, their utopian dreams began to unravel. Share your thoughts on the film in Talkback >>
The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning - Commentary By Kevin Carey In the late days of March 2010, Congressional negotiators dealt President Obama's community-college reform agenda what seemed like a fatal blow. A year later, it appears that, remarkably, the administration has fashioned the ashes of that defeat into one of the most innovative federal higher-education programs ever conceived. Hardly anyone has noticed. Obama originally called for $12-billion in new spending on community-college infrastructure and degree completion. Two days later, negotiators found $2-billion. Then, the Education and Labor Departments decided to do something highly uncharacteristic of large federal bureaucracies: They began to talk. The concept is simple: Community colleges that compete for federal money to serve students online will be obliged to make those materials—videos, text, assessments, curricula, diagnostic tools, and more—available to everyone in the world, free, under a Creative Commons license. That still leaves the problem of credit.
Mohawks - Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance From the playlist : Manifesto for Interventionist Media - because Art is a Hammer Manifesto Point # 1: The original project idea and goals come from the community partner. Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance is arguably Alanis Obomsawin's most important film, documenting the military 1990 siege of a Mohawk reserve near Oka, Quebec, and its causes. I chose this film here because the celebrated Abenaki filmmaker told me recently: "For me a real documentary is when you are really listening to somebody. — Katerina Cizek
10 juin 2011 : Rencontre exeptionnelle entre Richard Stallman et Albert Jacquard - Libre.Accès. "L’association LIBRE ACCES et Jacques Boutault, le Maire du 2 arrondissement organisent le 10 juin 2011 une rencontre entre Richard Stallman et Albert Jacquard autour de la préservation des biens communs cognitifs, de 19h00 à 21h00, en Mairie du 2ème arrondissement de Paris, au 8 rue de la banque 75002. La rencontre est publique, et n’exige pas de réservation préalable. Accueil par Jérémie Nestel, président de LIBRE ACCES" et Jacques Boutault , le Maire. Il s’en suivra un dialogue entre Richard Stallman et Albert Jacquard autour de la "gauche d’auteur", des biens communs cognitifs et de leurs préservations M. M. Cette rencontre sera modérée par Jean-Pierre Archambault, CNDP-CRDP de Paris Albert Jacquard, né à Lyon le 23 décembre 1925, est un scientifique et essayiste français. Richard Matthew Stallman (né à Manhattan, le 16 mars 1953), connu aussi sous les initiales RMS, est un programmeur et militant du logiciel libre.
Film School - Filmmaking Licence Edition Equitable : vers des archives ouvertes de la création Open Window. Par Tom Haymes. CC-BY-NC-SA. Présentée lors du Salon du Livre de Paris, la Licence Édition Equitable proposée par C & F Editions, a déjà fait l’objet de plusieurs commentaires, louant cette initiative visant à garantir un certain nombres de droits aux lecteurs de livres numériques. Cette licence propose en effet de créer "entre lecteur et éditeur un contrat équitable et durable", en excluant pour ce dernier le recours aux DRM (verrous numériques) afin de garantir au lecteur certaines facultés essentielles : le droit de lire sur les supports de son choix (interopérabilité), le droit de copier sur des supports personnels (copie privée), le droit de changer de format, le droit de copier des extraits ou le droit de faire circuler dans un cercle de proximité. Les auteurs disposent des Licences Creative Commons pour indiquer au lecteur ce qu’il peut faire avec leur œuvre. [...] in terms of content, post-prints are the article as published. Like this: J'aime chargement…