Berkman Luncheon Series: Digital Learning
April 19th, 2006
William McGeveran, Jackie Harlow, and Professor William W. Fisher III present a progress report on their year-long research project about Educational Uses of Content in the Digital Age, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
The project considers (1) the ways in which digitization alters the use of content by teachers and scholars in their educational mission; (2) what obstacles (legal, technical, or institutional) prevent the full potential of digital learning; and (3) what reforms might improve the situation. Professor Fisher is the lead investigator. Berkman Fellow William McGeveran and Berkman student fellow Jackie Harlow are coordinating the project.
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1. Info/Law » Google, &hellip | August 8th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
[…] Again, exactly right. And I have an example (discussed in the Berkman Center’s Digital Learning white paper that should be coming out this week!). Back in the early 1980s, the publishers sued NYU over photocopying for classroom use. Remember, the fair use provision of the copyright statute specifically names “multiple copies for classroom use” as an example of a fair use. Yet NYU settled, and as part of the deal accepted an internal copyright policy that sets extremely stringent limits on the ability to copy content for classroom use. After that, the other colleges and universities toppled like dominoes, so an estimated 80% of schools now impose these policies requiring somewhat arbitary numerical word limits, rules about frequency and “spontaneity” of copying, and more. Without any act by a judge or Congress, the general practice is just about what the publishers would want. (There are also indications that the publishers are now considering the same strategy to limit digital distribution of educational content like e-reserves.) […]