Intellectual property rights x Free Culture

Professor Lessig rethinks intellectual property rights by judging a balance of forces between commerce and community. His main argument focuses on reviving our creative culture.

Larry Lessig is is one of the foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition.

Creation always involves building upon something else.

“ There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. ”

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.

Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.

Larry is the founder of the Center for Internet and Society and professor of law at Stanford Law School.

His presentation in TED and his book present a very interesting combative manifesto enhancing How creativity is being strangled by the law

Download his book for free Remix

Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy

http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm

Open Content – Amateur Innovation

Charles Leadbeater presents several cases about “amateur innovation”

Amateur innovation refers to people who have the tools to collaborate and innovate make their expertise known through great ideas from outside the traditional walls.

Charles Leadbeater’s theories on innovation have compelled some of the world’s largest organizations to rethink their strategies.

Design by reusing

“The best way to have a new idea is often to recuperate a discarded old one.”

His book, We-Think explores how this emerging culture of mass creativity and participation could reshape companies and governments.

We Think

"We Think" was published by Profile in March 2008. It includes a  sharing  draft of the first eleven chapters online. This was downloaded thousands of times. The author received  hundreds of comments from people that changed the way the book was written.

Readers

“Today people are known for what they SHARE ... Wah ! ...Pretty provocative !”

We Think explains how digital technologies are enabling new forms of collaborative creativity and innovation.

The first three chapters of the book can be downloaded from the We Think section of his website

He is currently researching for Atlas of Ideas, a program that is mapping changes in the global geography of science and innovation

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Proteach Italia

Proteach Italia is the collaborative research project that was launched on 1st November by the Open University's KMi and the University of Padova. The project aims to explore the use of new video conferencing innovations to enhance the learning experience of professional groups. Specifically, the project will evaluate the use of FlashMeeting and Compendium in the teaching of Italian language teaching professionals as they learn techniques for teaching English to students. The teaching professionals will be undertaking a course delivered by the University of Padova using a team of co-ordinators. The course will be delivered in a Moodle environment with the use of FlashMeeting for oral teaching techniques. "This is a most exciting collaboration for us as it will produce tangible results in our VLE" said Paula de Waal, the e-learning manager of the facoltà di scienze della formazione at the University of Padova. Paula, along with KMi's Elia Tomadaki is leading the project. The research team are interested to see the impact of video training as opposed to face to face sessions and to evaluate the analysis of meeting types by analysing the broadcast and text chat use within the tutorial groups. The research aims to consider the application of live online video intereactions to support the professional learning of language teachers across boundaries. The use of argument mapping with Compendium as a stand-alone or incorporated tool will provide research into the building of visual representation of knowledge in multi language learning environments. The KMi team of Elia Tomadaki, Ale Okada, Alan Fletcher and Anna De Liddo were very happy to launch the project with a visit to KMi by John Hannon who tutors for the University of Padova. The planned set of exchanges are aimed at finalising the project roadmap and providing some Italian translation for use in the FlashMeeting training sessions. The project will run initially until April 2008.

Related Links:

• FlashMeeting

• Compendium

• University of Padova

• OpenLearn