More Legals
Copyright is a big topic. Changing too. James has things on SOPA and creative commons. Laura has a great summary, and Michael links to a story about piracy and discusses one reason why it happens. Man... Read More
Network Literacies
Niamh with notes from the reading, finding the analogy of print versus network literacy useful. Jamie has notes on double loop learning, network literacy and the essay. Tilly realises that while the i... Read More
And By The Way
Another afterthought of the legal minefield, come playground. It is international. So while what I write might not defame someone in Australian law it could in Singapore. And if I turned up in Singapo... Read More
Let’s Remove This Concept?
To begin with think of it as an ecosystem, and then there really isn’t competition (the idea that nature is a competition was understood to be wrong in about 1960). So we aren’t really com... Read More
Symposium 04 Questions
The questions of the week: How can you judge the validity of things on the internet? What are the limitations of network literacy? How does it differ to print literacy? What limitations do both litera... Read More
Symposium 04 Followup
Something that we didn’t get to today (the discussion about patents was probably too marginal, patent law isn’t something we need to worry about) was that when you’re writing critica... Read More
Symposium 03
The questions raised are: How much freedom do we have when writing critically of others or others’ work before we become liable for defamation or copyright infringement? Copyright protects publi... Read More
Online piracy crackdown a bad idea: Frank Moorhouse
Online piracy crackdown a bad idea: Frank Moorhouse. Recent article in Melbourne’s The Age on copyright and piracy. Frank Moorhouse is an important figure in the history of copyright in Australi... Read More