I just had to come back and write one more post in response to:
because it affects this blog, my friend James Farmer (who runs this excellent blogging service) and all my Edu-blogging colleagues who have ever blogged here.
I have long been nervous about working with copyright materials online. Not because I think money is evil, or those evil corporations are out to get little guys like me, or even that people should not have the right to protect their intellectual property. Rather, I see great value in the re-use of digital material as it flows freely through the interwebs and I worry about what can happen when a non malicious infringement throws a spanner in the works of a successful enterprise. This is why I favor distributed publishing models and license all my own work as Creative Commons: Attribution and try to avoid using any digital text, image, audio or video that is ‘protected’ by copyright.
Let’s try to put all the emotions to one side and look at what happened.
- [T+6 days] OLDaily newsletter links to TechDirt article (bringing the whole issue to my attention)
- [T+5 days] TechDirt and others spread the news
- [T+hours] Edublogs founder writes detailed post about entire kerfuffle
- [T=0] Hosting company takes server(s) off the air. (up to 1,451,943 blogs can’t be accessed for hour(s))
- [T-weeks] Hosting company receives DCMA copyright infringement notice
- [T-years] Publishing company implements process to enforce rights on material
- [T-5years] Teacher includes ‘Becks hopelessness scale’ in a blog post about a session
- [T-24years] Publisher included ‘Becks hopelessness scale’ in a publication
- [T- 38years] Beck creates hopelessness scale
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