Wednesday, February 6, 2008

VALA Day 2. Afternoon Plenary

Michael Geist , Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Canada Unlocking access: in support of a hands-on Internet policy

podcasts.culture.ca

'law & technology' U of Ottawa podcasts

creative archive licence group

Net 2008

  • blogs
  • podcasts
  • social networking
  • enables people to speak out, create
  • share experiences

Creation
  • desktop software
  • video distribution (youtube, bbc etc.)
  • flickr -billions of photos -over 100 million available under Creative Commons licences

Collaborative media
  • wikipedia - 2 million articles in english.
  • encyclopedia of Life -catalogue all life on earth in 10 years - started last year.
  • OhMyNews - citizen journalism
  • Project Gutenberg
  • LibriVox (audio of it)
  • MIT Open Courseware - online syllabus, course materials, powerpoint demos, podcasts, videocasts.
  • Public Library of Science - open access peer reviewed scientific journal

Internet archive is good for more than the Way Back machine, it will host any content that the individual has the copyright to.

Digitisation projects worldwide making information available to all.

Underlying most of this is open source software.

Net 2018

Connectivity
  • broadband
  • muni wifi
  • net neutrality
  • spam
  • spyware

Enhance participation

  • liability issues
  • domain names
  • privacy
  • trust
  • transparency

Anti-circumvention

  • fair use
  • term extension
  • orphan works
  • wipo

Content

  • open access
  • digitisation
  • crown copyright
  • public broadcasting

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