Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum ... 16 men on a dead man's chest ... are you a Pirate ?

Are you a pirate? Things have to change ... watch the video and decide where you stand. But as an educator do you stand somewhere different? Is it a case of don't do as I do; do as I say? Or do you just not say? Are we educating our young people to think and act from knowledge or ignorance?

Watch the video (Thanks to the Whiteboard Blog and the original post of Lauren O'Grady for the 'heads up' on this)



PS Breaking News from the BBC 24 July 2008

PPS Now news of Textbook piracy and its implications ... here .

Copyright ... time to re-evaluate

Copyright laws/rules were set for printed materials and have evolved or have been morphed to include electronic sources since music and photo and video became available. The laws and rules do not seem to fit today's publishing methodology and need a complete rethink. Copyright is too complex for mortals and creative commons has helped but ...

My feeds (apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed )today took me towards a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. This is well worth keeping as a reference guide to common sense and careful thought on the subject.

Is the study of such things soon to be part of the new e-curriculum we have yet to write ?

Copyright and Creative Commons

Had a long conversation yesterday with Joe Dale about Creative Commons and Copyright after our Flash Meeting session with friends in Australia.

Today he has put up on his blog a good explanation video which I replicate here.



There is also some really good advice on his blog post about how to get the best out of Fickr ... legally.

Onwards and upwards or just onwards ...?

Brian Smith emailed round the Naace advisory group earlier today after he had been experimenting with Twitter and had commented on all the new things he had discovered.

Looking down the email I came across the URL to a YouTube video that he posted in Feb 2008 about how culture fails to keep up with technology and how early adoption is pretty well always about replication. In terms of the video we have now, in some way, invented the 'rivets and welds' of Web 2.0 but in doing so have opened up a great number of other avenues as to what can now be done ... and this is beginning to stretch the rules that have always applied to publication.



Harry Lessig in his TED talk How creativity is being strangled by the law begins to address this issue. But it is a similar issue to the one concerning the job market for your people. In the next decade many will be doing jobs that don't exist yet ... we and they will need to adapt to the changes as they com along ... not simply try to replicate solutions as we always did.