The New Zealand Ministry for Justice believes that open source software is a more stable, supportable, and cost-effective choice compared to proprietary solutions.
      http://nzoss.org.nz/system/files/moj_oss_strategy_1.0.pdf

This is a well considered opinion that might interest those that have had problems getting their school to adopt open ( Read more... )

This is a short film called A fair'y use tale by the Stanford Law School on Fair Use, composed entirely of fairly used Disney film clips. It is an informative and funny resource to use in the classroom to teach about copyright related issues.

At least we are still relatively free to talk about this issue. A report of a comprehensive censorship ( Read more... )

Tony and Lindy have made some great contributions to the Games in Learning mailing lits and I fully agree with their sentiments. Australian legislators seem to have ignored all reasonable advice and have taken the most draconian, restrictive line with their most recent copyright amendments. Whilst there is sufficient scope in the legislation for a ( Read more... )

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