[ccccip] Top IP Events of 2007?

Clancy Ratliff culturecat at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 16:35:47 EST 2008 

Ack! Sorry about that. The remaining topics, then, are:

"Anti-P2P Bill Makes it Past the House with No Problems"
"Creative Commons / Science Commons Open Data license"
"NIH Open Access mandate"
"Open Yale Courses"



On Jan 3, 2008 3:33 PM, Cubbison, Laurie B <lcubbiso at radford.edu> wrote:
> Oh, #7 is the 'Recut, Reframe, Recycle' report. So that's the one I'm claiming.
>
> Laurie Cubbison
> GTF Mentoring Program Coordinator
> Radford University
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ccccip.org on behalf of Clancy Ratliff
>
> Sent: Thu 1/3/2008 4:25 PM
> To: CCCC IP Caucus
> Subject: Re: [ccccip] Top IP Events of 2007?
>
> It's yours, Laurie! Thanks a lot for volunteering. So this leaves:
>
> "Anti-P2P Bill Makes it Past the House with No Problems"
> "Creative Commons / Science Commons Open Data license"
> "NIH Open Access mandate"
> "Open Yale Courses"
> "'Recut, Reframe, Recycle' report"
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 3:18 PM, Cubbison, Laurie B <lcubbiso at radford.edu> wrote:
> > I'd like to claim #7 on remixing, as that's been a topic of interest to me for some time.
> >
> > Laurie Cubbison
> > GTF Mentoring Program Coordinator
> > Radford University
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: discuss-bounces at ccccip.org on behalf of Clancy Ratliff
> >
> > Sent: Thu 1/3/2008 4:06 PM
> > To: CCCC IP Caucus
> > Subject: Re: [ccccip] Top IP Events of 2007?
> >
> > Okay, everyone, here's what we've got (#2 and #3 go to Martine and
> > Kim, respectively). Other topics anyone wants to claim?
> >
> > I'd like this to go live no later than mid-March. This way we can
> > promote it on the all the professional listservs and use it to drum up
> > caucus attendance at the conference.
> >
> >
> > 1.  The story: "Anti-P2P Bill Makes it Past the House with No Problems"
> >
> > C/Net news reports that ( http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-6218834.html )
> >
> > "In the House Education and Labor Committee's mammoth College
> > Opportunity and Affordability Act (PDF) lies a tiny section, which
> > dictates universities that participate in federal financial aid
> > programs 'shall' devise plans for 'alternative' offerings to unlawful
> > downloading, such as subscription-based services, or 'technology-based
> > deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.' The committee
> > unanimously approved the bill Thursday."
> >
> > 2. The report  "The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy" (MARTINE)
> >
> > According to a report written by Renee Hobbs, Peter Jaszi & Pat
> > Aufderheide released (September 2007):
> >
> > "The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy, based on scores
> > of longform interviews with teachers, shows that the fundamental goals
> > of media literacy education-to cultivate critical thinking and
> > expression about media and its social role-are compromised by
> > unnecessary copyright restrictions. As a result of poor guidance,
> > counterproductive guidelines, and fear, teachers use less effective
> > teaching techniques, teach and transmit erroneous copyright
> > information, fail to share innovative instructional approaches, and do
> > not take advantage of new digital platforms."
> >
> > 3. The OLPC XO laptops (KIM) - built just about entirely out of open
> > intellectual
> > property (from the lowest level BIOS bits all the way up through the
> > software stack to the UI) - seem like an obvious target to me.
> >
> > 4. The Creative Commons / Science Commons Open Data license that
> > came out late in the year:
> >
> > http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/
> >
> > 5. The NIH Open Access mandate, signed December 26, that makes
> > anything the NIH funds OA either immediately or within 12 months (if you
> > gotta embargo it, for some reason, you may only do so for 12 months).
> > [And, well, there's a good bit of communication / CMC / 'interesting'
> > research funded by NIH.  Not always immediately obvious to us what those
> > things are, but...]
> >
> > 6. The release of Open Yale Courses:
> >
> > http://open.yale.edu/courses/
> > http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/07-12-11-00.all.html
> > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7895
> >
> > 7. "Recut, Reframe, Recycle"
> > http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/recut_reframe_recycle/
> >
> > "When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, are they
> > violating the law? Not necessarily, according to the latest study on
> > copyright and creativity from the Center and American University's
> > Washington College of Law."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2008 2:51 PM, Gainer, Kim D <kgainer at radford.edu> wrote:
> > > I would be interested in writing about the OLPC XO laptops.  Also, last year there were a couple of blogswarming episodes that forced companies to backpedal after sending cease and desist letters to bloggers who had made arguably fair use of sources.  Would this phenomena of bloggers mobilizing to push back at attempts to limit use of sources be a topic of interest in this forum?
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: discuss-bounces at ccccip.org on behalf of Clancy Ratliff
> > > Sent: Thu 1/3/2008 3:39 PM
> > > To: Karen Lunsford
> > > Cc: discuss at ccccip.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ccccip] Top IP Events of 2007?
> > >
> > > Oh, there are all kinds of places we can cross-publish it: Kairosnews,
> > > ccccip.org, MediaCommons, and Academic Commons, just to name a few. We
> > > can submit a link to the publication to Boing Boing's "Suggest a Link"
> > > form, too. We could also ask about the possibility of publishing it in
> > > Computers and Composition Online's professional development section or
> > > reviews section (as a year-in-review retrospective kind of thing).
> > >
> > > Do any of you want to go ahead and claim one of these topics to write about?
> > >
> > > Clancy
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 3, 2008 2:22 PM, Karen Lunsford <klunsford at writing.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > Let me add that the IP Committee will definitely be sponsoring these
> > > > reports again on an NCTE site.  In addition, the Exec. Committee would
> > > > like to find ways to link directly to them on their redesigned site
> > > > (under construction, I understand).  Perhaps we might explore other
> > > > (joint?) publication possibilities to make the reports as visible as
> > > > possible?  All of these topics sound fabulous, and the more, the
> > > > merrier.
> > > >
> > > > Happy new year!
> > > > Karen
> > > > --
> > > > Karen Lunsford, Assistant Professor of Writing
> > > > Mailing address:
> > > > Writing Program, South Hall 1520
> > > > University of California, Santa Barbara
> > > > Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3010
> > > > klunsford at writing.ucsb.edu
> > > > 805-893-8556
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Quoting Clancy Ratliff <culturecat at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > > Oh, wow, you guys, these ideas are excellent. I'd say we probably have
> > > > > enough to go on, unless there are obvious big events we're missing --
> > > > > if so, please speak up.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Jan 2, 2008 7:17 PM,  <elw at stderr.org> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> > I hope your holiday has been relaxing. I'm writing to see if we want to
> > > > >> > do a "Major Intellectual Property Developments in 2007" online
> > > > >> > publication similar to what was published in 2005:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> The OLPC XO laptops - built just about entirely out of open intellectual
> > > > >> property (from the lowest level BIOS bits all the way up through the
> > > > >> software stack to the UI) - seem like an obvious target to me.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> There's also the Creative Commons / Science Commons Open Data license that
> > > > >> came out late in the year:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/
> > > > >>
> > > > >> These seem like straightforward, but massive changes to me.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> There's also the NIH Open Access mandate, signed December 26, that makes
> > > > >> anything the NIH funds OA either immediately or within 12 months (if you
> > > > >> gotta embargo it, for some reason, you may only do so for 12 months).
> > > > >> [And, well, there's a good bit of communication / CMC / 'interesting'
> > > > >> research funded by NIH.  Not always immediately obvious to us what those
> > > > >> things are, but...]
> > > > >>
> > > > >> All three of these are more important to CCCCs folks than is immediately
> > > > >> obvious - being markers of the ways in which education, research, and
> > > > >> publishing are undergoing radical and dramatic shifts.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> --elijah
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
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> > > > >
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