This is a lesson I created for an assignment in my EdTech program. It can be used in middle school & high school technology classes to introduce the basics of copyrights, and guidelines for reducing infringement on copyrighted material.
Copyright has always been very confusing in academia across the continents. It will remain so forever with the changing technological as well as socio-cultural perspectives from time to time. Among all, teacher-learner exceptions are considered to be the most debatable one. Academicians should always promote and practice fair use of the copyrighted materials in academia and scholarship. This is the basic premise to encourage creativity and proliferation of knowledge in the years to come. File sharing through internet, use of social media for academic work, submitting scholarly works in cloud has blurred the difference between copyright owners, creators and copyright file keepers or servers. Identifying, establishing and enforcing copyright for scholarly digital content gradually has become a challenging task. There can not be any simple solution to the present complexities to satisfy all kind of stakeholders in academia. Balancing al the stakeholders interests is the only key to keep afloat in the ocean of new scholarly ecosystem.
This is a lesson I created for an assignment in my EdTech program. It can be used in middle school & high school technology classes to introduce the basics of copyrights, and guidelines for reducing infringement on copyrighted material.
Copyright has always been very confusing in academia across the continents. It will remain so forever with the changing technological as well as socio-cultural perspectives from time to time. Among all, teacher-learner exceptions are considered to be the most debatable one. Academicians should always promote and practice fair use of the copyrighted materials in academia and scholarship. This is the basic premise to encourage creativity and proliferation of knowledge in the years to come. File sharing through internet, use of social media for academic work, submitting scholarly works in cloud has blurred the difference between copyright owners, creators and copyright file keepers or servers. Identifying, establishing and enforcing copyright for scholarly digital content gradually has become a challenging task. There can not be any simple solution to the present complexities to satisfy all kind of stakeholders in academia. Balancing al the stakeholders interests is the only key to keep afloat in the ocean of new scholarly ecosystem.
Lecture. Describes how Web 2.0 technologies enable a form of cultural production that challenges the status quo, which is corporate and copyright-driven. Introduces the concept of Creative Commons licensing.
Human beings (and many other animals) are territorial - the distin.docxwellesleyterresa
Human beings (and many other animals) are territorial - the distinction between "mine" and "yours" is not learned or cultural; it is deeply rooted in our animal instincts. This is what makes the argument from property rights so powerful. Supporters of Capitalism (wise-users among them) believe that all property should be "mine," whereas Socialism (including most environmentalists, in some form or other) think that most property should be "ours." This is a very old and fundamental debate; "Capitalism" and "Socialism" are merely the newest names for the two sides. Modern socialists and anarchists usually agree that "I" am entitled to enough private property for my own personal use (no one wants to share a toothbrush!) but that all excess property should belong to the community (why do I need two houses? for example). And the property I personally need is very little indeed. Any more than that, and I am usurping what others could use: I am getting rich at someone else's expense; I am creating two classes of society, the "haves" and the "have nots." To get to the point: opponents of wise use believe that it is wrong for me to abuse, pollute, destroy or otherwise damage property that should benefit everyone. I can trash my own house, if I like; that's my business; but when I trash the larger environment, that's everyone's business, even if the property laws say that environment is "mine." The "wise use" position is that "mine" is mine, no limits, no restrictions.
When modern capitalism evolved in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it worked only because new laws defined "property" in new and inventive ways so that the capitalists could be certain of keeping the profits they made in the free market. No entrepreneur would want to start a new business if he could not be certain that it, and any profit it made, were really his. (At least, that was what the capitalists and their partners in the newly centralized governments said.) In earlier ages, philosophers believed that property is temporary; that it is ours only so long as we actually use it (this is called "usufruct" in feudal law). After all, we come into the world with nothing, and we leave it with nothing, so property cannot be "ours" in any permanent sense. Medieval cities and kingdoms actually had laws against charging interest on loans or charging more for a loaf of bread than the poor could afford - because economic wealth was seen as belonging to the community, not to the individual. In fact, the entire Judeao-Christian-Muslim belief system preaches against the use of interest. They call it usury, and it is generally agreed to be greedy and potentially evil. Unfortunately, in the modern era, the Christians (and almost everyone else) seem to have abandoned this law. The Jewish and Islamic communities still adhere to it in varying degrees: the Islamic much more so. These notions of community and mutual benefit changed when the new market economy began to encourage greed and acquisiti ...
Of Hobbits, Amish, Hackers and Technology (or, is technology for humans or vi...Kaido Kikkas
Musings on the role of technology, spiced up with lessons from some very different folks (based on Pekka Himanen, Howard Rheingold and J.R.R. Tolkien).
Presentation by Etienne Le Roy at “Commons tenure for a common future” Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Speakers:
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1. The philosophy of intellectual
property and free culture
Tom Chance
Speaker on Intellectual Property, Green Party
Open Source City, Liverpool, 20th June 2008
2.
3. What's it all about?
Property
Licenses Working spaces
Working practices
Aesthetic, political or functional goals
4. It's mostly about... property
Private – 'I own x, it's mine'
Communal – 'we use x to achieve y'
Common - 'x belongs to us all / nobody'
5. Private property
Family of rights might include right to:
•
Possess
•
Use
•
Manage
•
Derive income
•
Gain capital value
•
Security from expropriation
•
Transmission
•
Lack of term on rights
•
Positive duties
8. Copyright is...
Private property with collectivist exceptions
Fair use / dealing
Various other goal-oriented exceptions
Limited terms leading to a commons
11. Kant's categorical imperative
”Act only according to that maxim whereby
you can at the same time will that it
should become a universal law.”
- Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
12. Stallman's categorical
imperative
”copyleft is the rule that when
redistributing the program, you cannot
add restrictions to deny other people the
central freedoms [to use, study, share
and modify software]”
- Richard Stallman, The Free Software Definition
13. Myers' categorical imperative
”Creators who reserve a right of creative
fiat may see that same right exercised
against them, and they will appreciate it
much less in those circumstances. This is
a permission culture, not a free culture.”
- Rob Myers, Why the NC permission culture simply doesn't work
14. The Big Licensing Debate
Copyleft: GNU GPL, CC BY-SA, etc.
Libertarian: BSD, CC BY, etc.
Permission culture: CC BY-NC-SA, etc.
Teleological: Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source
Software License Agreement
15.
16. Locke – a necessary right?
”Labour is the unquestionable property of
the labourer”
and
”the common is of no use... there must of
necessity be a means to appropriate
them some way or anothr before they
can be of any use”
- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
17. Locke – a personality right?
”every man has Property in his own
Person. Thus no Body has any Right but
himself.”
and
We have ”the utmost property” in that
which we create
- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
18. Locke – a fair or just right?
”God gave the world to the use of the
industrious and rational, (and labour was
to be his title to it;) not to the fancy or
covetousness of the quarrelsome and
contentious”
- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
19. Locke – beneficial use
”the end of Law is not to abolish or
restrain, but to preserve and enlarge
Freedom”
- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
20. Eric Raymond – beneficial use
”Lockean property customs arise only
where the expected return from the
resource exceeds the expected cost of
defending it”
- Eric Raymond, Homesteading the Noosphere
21.
22. Marx – labour and alienation
”The object produced by labour now stands
opposed to it as an alien being, as a
power independent of the producer”
- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
23. Feenberg – labour and
alienation
”The worker becomes a mere appendage to
an already existing material condition of
production... [and] suffers a knowledge
deficit [as well as a] solidarity deficit”
- Andrew Feenberg, Critical theory of technology
24. Berry – labour and alienation
”Free software is not directly linked to
necessity, and is in many ways similar to
the creation of an artist... to create free
culture is to contribute toward culture
rather than consume (i.e. destroy it)”
- David Berry, Free as in “free speech” or free as in “free labour”?
25. Copyleft is...
Positive intellectual common enforced by
subverting private property rights to
Defend our right to a public good, or
Maximise benefits to society, or
Promote unalienated labour and better
social relations