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Should Teachers Be Selling Lesson Plans?

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Open Courses, Mit, Creative Commons, American Federation of Teachers, Teachers, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans for Teachers, Teacher Resources, Politics News
Esther Wojcicki

While it is an interesting alternative for teachers to have the option of selling their lesson plans, realistically the culture of teachers nationwide is one of sharing, not selling.

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A Cup of Coffee to Build Sustainable Communities

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact

Read More: Lawrence Lessig, Sarah Jones, Majora Carter, Creative Commons, Jehane Noujaim, Allison Arieff, Ted, Architecture, Design, Giving, Development, Richard Saul Wurman, Sustainable Building, Kate Stohr, Impact News
Cameron Sinclair

Through Architecture For Humanity's "Do A Latte Good" campaign, you can bid on coffee with one of our great supporters, and in return they'll contribute to help reconstruction efforts post-Typhoon Ketsana.

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Sesame Workshop-Google Education Forum Live -- How Can We Change the System?

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: James-Bennet, Joel Klein, Education, Linda Darling-Hammond, Education Reform, Creative Commons, Sesame Workshop, Google, Sergey Brin, Impact News
Esther Wojcicki

Watch the education forum here. We have a powerhouse panel including the Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter, Stanford Professor Linda Darling Hammond, and NYC Chancellor Joel Klein.

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Science Commons: Lynda Resnick Interviews John Wilbanks

Lynda Resnick's Blog | Lynda Resnick | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

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Researchers around the world are hard at work on cures for most every ailment and disease. But until now, there was no system - let alone incentive - ...

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Old Enough to Know Better, Young Enough to Pretend: Can the Chicago News Cooperative Succeed?

Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Journalism, Chicago Reader, Old Media vs. New Media, Creative Commons, Chicago Politics, Chicago Olympics, Death of Newspapers, Wbez, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, New York Times, Cnc, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago News
Daniel Sinker

If there was a better day to announce the News Cooperative, I can't think of it. After Mayor Daley's budget address, the two major papers ran the same cover: a 24-year-old kidnapping.

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Remixing the Book

Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Out of Control, Kevin Kelly, Remixing, Publishing, Creative Commons, Remix, Writing, Books, Open Source, Web, Andreas Lloyd, Technology, Book, Editing, Books News
Hugh McGuire

Writers will probably always want to keep control of their work, but who is to say that the particular collaboration between a writer and her editor results in the best possible book?

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Young Adult Books Needed For Braille Class

Posted 11.14.2009 | Impact

Read More: Young Adult Novels, Braille, Creative Commons, Reading, Fair Use, Ebooks, Impact News

Here's a letter by Patti Smith (not that one), a Detroit elementary school teacher of visually impaired students, sent to writer Cory Doctorow. She di...

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Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Limited Copyright, Newspapers, Free Content, Copyright, Content, Artistic Collaboration, Perpetual Copyright, Copyright Extension, Chris Anderson, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Intellectual Property, Music, Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, Cross-Subsidies, Publishing Industry, Free Economy, Digital Economy, Digital, Future of the Internet, Google, Wikipedia, Public Domain, Paid Content, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Microsoft, Books, Business Models for Digital Content, Thomas Jefferson, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Mark Helprin, Linux, Moore's Law, Espresso Book Machine, Art, Piracy, " "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, Advertising, Digital Age, Music Industry, Freemium, " Free, Media News
Anis Shivani

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.

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Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation

Gary Shapiro | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Movie Industry, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Copyright, Riaa, Content Creation, Innovation, Creative Commons, Dvr, Apple, Dell, Qualcomm, Jfk, Cea, Ebay, Sony Betamax, Amazon, Vcr, Fair Use, Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Gary Shapiro, mp3s, Congress, Hollywood, Facebook, Tivo, Mark Helprin, Cisco, Piracy, Music Industry, Texas Instruments, Zillow, Hp, Patents, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Defenders of expanded copyright restrictions imply that content owners have been on a losing streak and have few tools at their disposal. Wrong.

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How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

David Bollier | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Copyright Law, Free Culture, Free Software, Creative Commons, Internet, Media News
David Bollier

An open culture, a sharing economy and a digital republic: the foundations for this new world actually matured during the nightmarish Bush years, beneath its contemptuous gaze.

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Face/Off: How a Little Change in Facebook's User Policy is Making People Rethink the Rights They Give Away Online

Daniel Sinker | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Facebook Privacy, Creative Commons, Facebook, Privacy, Silicon Valley, Non-Apology Apology, Facebook Terms of Service, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Controversy, Media News
Daniel Sinker

What's got billionare Mark Zuckerberg so blue? Just that his service is claiming perpetual rights to all its 175 million users' content, even if you kill your account.

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Tila Tequila Likes to F*ck...with Free Speech

Disgrasian | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Tila Tequila Copyright Infringement, Creative Commons, Copyright, A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila, Tila Tequila, Bloggers, Free Speech Rights, Free Speech, Tila Tequila Free Speech, Legal Rights, Exploitation, Tila Tequila Censorship, Internet Censorship, Internet Law, Tila Nguyen, Censorship, Fair Use, Media News
Disgrasian

It sounds a helluva lot like Tila Tequila believes in censorship. Of the very same medium that made her, which, frankly, we find shockingly ungrateful.

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