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Fred Benenson | 1 Aug 2008 01:08
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Re: [Fwd: [WL-Volunteers] [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31 Washington DC]

Alright, I'm going to propose no more "blind" forwards to this list.

I think I understand what is going on here because I've heard about this stuff on Wikileaks before, but most people are going to be confused by the subject line mixed with PGP signature (good to know its you and not someone else forwarding something you didn't write!).

So please, next time, just spend 10 seconds explaining why you think your forward is relevant to this list. We're going for quality, not quantity.

best,

Fred


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Ringo Kamens <2600denver <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:53 +0100 (BST)
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WIKILEAKS URGENT DOCUMENT RELEASE
Tue Jul 29 10:53:25 BST 2008

ACTA trade agreement industry negotiating brief on Border Measures and
Civil Enforcement

The ACTA negotiations are scheduled for 29 to 31 July 2008 in Washington DC.

In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a
treaty-making process to create a new global standard for copyright,
trademark and patent enforcement, which was called, in a piece of
brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement".

ACTA is spearheaded by the United States, and includes the European
Commission, Japan, and Switzerland -- which have large copyright and
patent industries. Other countries invited to participate in ACTA's
negotiation process are Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New
Zealand. Noticeably absent from ACTA's negotiations are leaders from
developing countries who hold national policy priorities that differ
from the international copyright and patent industry.

This document is the ACTA negotiating brief dated July 29, 2008,
provided by the copyright/patent/trademark industry to negotiating
countries; pages concerning customs enforcement and civil enforcement.

Under customs enforcement for example it proposes:

   * Increased inspection of goods to detect potential shipments
   * Customs to provide rights holders all relevant information for the
purposes of their own private investigations and court action they are
to be given a minimum of 20 working days to commence such actions.
   * Seized counterfeit goods are to be destroyed or disposed at the
rights holders pleasure. Removing a trademark will not cut it.
   * Under civil enforcement rights holders will have more say on the
damages involved as well as more compensation to cover their legal
enforcement costs including "reasonable attorney's fees";.
   * Rights holders to get the right to obtain information regarding an
infringer, their identities, means of production or distribution and
relevant third parties.

The exact composition of the business "side" is not known, which
reflects the lack of transparency afflicting the ACTA process. Whether
trade representatives can be forced to reveal the make-up to the press
or policy groups remains to be seen.

See http://wikileaks.org/wiki/S4
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Frank Tobia | 1 Aug 2008 01:13
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Re: [Fwd: [WL-Volunteers] [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31 Washington DC]

Yeah I totally agree with Fred on this one.  Having to parse through an entire blind forward is kind of annoying when the sender should be explaining relevance.  We should be keeping this list's signal-to-noise ratio as high as possible, and most importantly, each subscriber should be able to easily determine which is which (for him or her).

Also blind forwards probably violate at least one of the proposed guidelines.  Just throwing that out there.

-Frank

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson <at> gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I'm going to propose no more "blind" forwards to this list.

I think I understand what is going on here because I've heard about this stuff on Wikileaks before, but most people are going to be confused by the subject line mixed with PGP signature (good to know its you and not someone else forwarding something you didn't write!).

So please, next time, just spend 10 seconds explaining why you think your forward is relevant to this list. We're going for quality, not quantity.

best,

Fred



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- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31    Washington DC
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:53 +0100 (BST)
From: Wikileaks Press Office <press <at> wikileaks.org>

WIKILEAKS URGENT DOCUMENT RELEASE
Tue Jul 29 10:53:25 BST 2008

ACTA trade agreement industry negotiating brief on Border Measures and
Civil Enforcement

The ACTA negotiations are scheduled for 29 to 31 July 2008 in Washington DC.

In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a
treaty-making process to create a new global standard for copyright,
trademark and patent enforcement, which was called, in a piece of
brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement".

ACTA is spearheaded by the United States, and includes the European
Commission, Japan, and Switzerland -- which have large copyright and
patent industries. Other countries invited to participate in ACTA's
negotiation process are Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New
Zealand. Noticeably absent from ACTA's negotiations are leaders from
developing countries who hold national policy priorities that differ
from the international copyright and patent industry.

This document is the ACTA negotiating brief dated July 29, 2008,
provided by the copyright/patent/trademark industry to negotiating
countries; pages concerning customs enforcement and civil enforcement.

Under customs enforcement for example it proposes:

   * Increased inspection of goods to detect potential shipments
   * Customs to provide rights holders all relevant information for the
purposes of their own private investigations and court action they are
to be given a minimum of 20 working days to commence such actions.
   * Seized counterfeit goods are to be destroyed or disposed at the
rights holders pleasure. Removing a trademark will not cut it.
   * Under civil enforcement rights holders will have more say on the
damages involved as well as more compensation to cover their legal
enforcement costs including "reasonable attorney's fees";.
   * Rights holders to get the right to obtain information regarding an
infringer, their identities, means of production or distribution and
relevant third parties.

The exact composition of the business "side" is not known, which
reflects the lack of transparency afflicting the ACTA process. Whether
trade representatives can be forced to reveal the make-up to the press
or policy groups remains to be seen.

See http://wikileaks.org/wiki/S4
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Tim Hwang | 1 Aug 2008 01:20
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Re: [Fwd: [WL-Volunteers] [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31 Washington DC]

This one is huge -- I think it's totally interesting that this shift
is about to go down esp. with regards to rights holders being able to
access huge personal information about people labeled infringers.
Ringo, any place where we could find out more information about this?

Thirded on the blind forward policy though -- in the very least, it
seems to miss out on a great opportunity for the poster to spark some
discussion/proposals for action.

Best,
Tim

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Frank Tobia <frank.tobia <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah I totally agree with Fred on this one.  Having to parse through an
> entire blind forward is kind of annoying when the sender should be
> explaining relevance.  We should be keeping this list's signal-to-noise
> ratio as high as possible, and most importantly, each subscriber should be
> able to easily determine which is which (for him or her).
>
> Also blind forwards probably violate at least one of the proposed
> guidelines.  Just throwing that out there.
>
> -Frank
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Alright, I'm going to propose no more "blind" forwards to this list.
>>
>> I think I understand what is going on here because I've heard about this
>> stuff on Wikileaks before, but most people are going to be confused by the
>> subject line mixed with PGP signature (good to know its you and not someone
>> else forwarding something you didn't write!).
>>
>> So please, next time, just spend 10 seconds explaining why you think your
>> forward is relevant to this list. We're going for quality, not quantity.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Ringo Kamens <2600denver <at> gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
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>>> - -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31
>>>  Washington DC
>>> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:53 +0100 (BST)
>>> From: Wikileaks Press Office <press <at> wikileaks.org>
>>>
>>> WIKILEAKS URGENT DOCUMENT RELEASE
>>> Tue Jul 29 10:53:25 BST 2008
>>>
>>> ACTA trade agreement industry negotiating brief on Border Measures and
>>> Civil Enforcement
>>>
>>> The ACTA negotiations are scheduled for 29 to 31 July 2008 in Washington
>>> DC.
>>>
>>> In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a
>>> treaty-making process to create a new global standard for copyright,
>>> trademark and patent enforcement, which was called, in a piece of
>>> brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement".
>>>
>>> ACTA is spearheaded by the United States, and includes the European
>>> Commission, Japan, and Switzerland -- which have large copyright and
>>> patent industries. Other countries invited to participate in ACTA's
>>> negotiation process are Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New
>>> Zealand. Noticeably absent from ACTA's negotiations are leaders from
>>> developing countries who hold national policy priorities that differ
>>> from the international copyright and patent industry.
>>>
>>> This document is the ACTA negotiating brief dated July 29, 2008,
>>> provided by the copyright/patent/trademark industry to negotiating
>>> countries; pages concerning customs enforcement and civil enforcement.
>>>
>>> Under customs enforcement for example it proposes:
>>>
>>>    * Increased inspection of goods to detect potential shipments
>>>    * Customs to provide rights holders all relevant information for the
>>> purposes of their own private investigations and court action they are
>>> to be given a minimum of 20 working days to commence such actions.
>>>    * Seized counterfeit goods are to be destroyed or disposed at the
>>> rights holders pleasure. Removing a trademark will not cut it.
>>>    * Under civil enforcement rights holders will have more say on the
>>> damages involved as well as more compensation to cover their legal
>>> enforcement costs including "reasonable attorney's fees";.
>>>    * Rights holders to get the right to obtain information regarding an
>>> infringer, their identities, means of production or distribution and
>>> relevant third parties.
>>>
>>> The exact composition of the business "side" is not known, which
>>> reflects the lack of transparency afflicting the ACTA process. Whether
>>> trade representatives can be forced to reveal the make-up to the press
>>> or policy groups remains to be seen.
>>>
>>> See http://wikileaks.org/wiki/S4
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Luis Gustavo Lira | 1 Aug 2008 01:21
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Re: FC Reaching Out To Development Communities?

We have been working with international initiatives: Lemelson Foundation RAMP, OLPC, SFD, Google SoC,
NESsT, Ashoka, BiD Foundation and with local organizations: NutriProSalud (Health), Quantum
Solutions (Business Incubation), CIDE-PUCP (Business Incubation), GRUPO-PUCP (Apropriate
Technologies), Telefonica (Rural Telecommunications), CIDESI (Assistive Technologies), CODESI
(Digital Agenda)

--- El jue 31-jul-08, Tim Hwang <tim.r.hwang <at> gmail.com> escribió:

> De: Tim Hwang <tim.r.hwang <at> gmail.com>
> Asunto: [FC-discuss] FC Reaching Out To Development Communities?
> A: discuss <at> freeculture.org
> Fecha: jueves, 31 julio, 2008, 11:55 pm
> At least speaking from Harvard FC's experience and some
> of the talking
> I've been doing with other SFC groups, I've been
> thinking lately that,
> strategically, one really promising thing to pursue much
> more
> aggressively in the future is to build up partnerships with
> pre-existing communities that are already poised to be part
> of Free
> Culture without actually being part of it. As a whole,
> chapters (not
> surprisingly) seem to have created good outreach to the
> techie world,
> but on a whole we've got less consistent relationships
> with the world
> outside of that.
> 
> I think that the international development community might
> be great
> space for this kind of teaming up on projects. They're
> plugged in with
> a massive ecosystem of organizations who are dealing with a
> bunch of
> intellectual property issues (pharmaceuticals, technology
> transfer,
> cultural product distribution) where restrictiveness is
> causing real
> problems. These are natural allies, and I think Free
> Culture can play
> a big role A) as a connector to the tech world and B) in
> helping these
> groups join up with Free Culture more generally.
> 
> In any case, been scheming up some stuff for HFC in the
> fall. I know
> we already have some existing connects with Gavin and the
> UAEM
> (http://www.essentialmedicine.org/) folks -- but wanted to
> see on the
> list if any of the the chapters had any protips/experiences
> to impart
> or had ideas on FC-friendly orgs worth getting in touch
> with/teaming
> up with. Alternatively, if you want to join up with us on
> projects in
> this vein next year -- let me know!
> 
> Best,
> Tim
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Ringo Kamens | 1 Aug 2008 01:25
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Re: [Fwd: [WL-Volunteers] [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31 Washington DC]


Tim Hwang wrote:
> This one is huge -- I think it's totally interesting that this shift
> is about to go down esp. with regards to rights holders being able to
> access huge personal information about people labeled infringers.
> Ringo, any place where we could find out more information about this?
> 
> Thirded on the blind forward policy though -- in the very least, it
> seems to miss out on a great opportunity for the poster to spark some
> discussion/proposals for action.
> 
> Best,
> Tim
> 
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Frank Tobia <frank.tobia <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah I totally agree with Fred on this one.  Having to parse through an
>> entire blind forward is kind of annoying when the sender should be
>> explaining relevance.  We should be keeping this list's signal-to-noise
>> ratio as high as possible, and most importantly, each subscriber should be
>> able to easily determine which is which (for him or her).
>>
>> Also blind forwards probably violate at least one of the proposed
>> guidelines.  Just throwing that out there.
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson <at> gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Alright, I'm going to propose no more "blind" forwards to this list.
>>>
>>> I think I understand what is going on here because I've heard about this
>>> stuff on Wikileaks before, but most people are going to be confused by the
>>> subject line mixed with PGP signature (good to know its you and not someone
>>> else forwarding something you didn't write!).
>>>
>>> So please, next time, just spend 10 seconds explaining why you think your
>>> forward is relevant to this list. We're going for quality, not quantity.
>>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Ringo Kamens <2600denver <at> gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [WL-News] ACTA trade agreement brief for July 29-31
>  Washington DC
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:53 +0100 (BST)
> From: Wikileaks Press Office <press <at> wikileaks.org>
> 
> WIKILEAKS URGENT DOCUMENT RELEASE
> Tue Jul 29 10:53:25 BST 2008
> 
> ACTA trade agreement industry negotiating brief on Border Measures and
> Civil Enforcement
> 
> The ACTA negotiations are scheduled for 29 to 31 July 2008 in Washington
> DC.
> 
> In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a
> treaty-making process to create a new global standard for copyright,
> trademark and patent enforcement, which was called, in a piece of
> brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement".
> 
> ACTA is spearheaded by the United States, and includes the European
> Commission, Japan, and Switzerland -- which have large copyright and
> patent industries. Other countries invited to participate in ACTA's
> negotiation process are Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New
> Zealand. Noticeably absent from ACTA's negotiations are leaders from
> developing countries who hold national policy priorities that differ
> from the international copyright and patent industry.
> 
> This document is the ACTA negotiating brief dated July 29, 2008,
> provided by the copyright/patent/trademark industry to negotiating
> countries; pages concerning customs enforcement and civil enforcement.
> 
> Under customs enforcement for example it proposes:
> 
>    * Increased inspection of goods to detect potential shipments
>    * Customs to provide rights holders all relevant information for the
> purposes of their own private investigations and court action they are
> to be given a minimum of 20 working days to commence such actions.
>    * Seized counterfeit goods are to be destroyed or disposed at the
> rights holders pleasure. Removing a trademark will not cut it.
>    * Under civil enforcement rights holders will have more say on the
> damages involved as well as more compensation to cover their legal
> enforcement costs including "reasonable attorney's fees";.
>    * Rights holders to get the right to obtain information regarding an
> infringer, their identities, means of production or distribution and
> relevant third parties.
> 
> The exact composition of the business "side" is not known, which
> reflects the lack of transparency afflicting the ACTA process. Whether
> trade representatives can be forced to reveal the make-up to the press
> or policy groups remains to be seen.
> 
> See http://wikileaks.org/wiki/S4
> _______________________________________________
> News mailing list
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I know that the EFF has made a few statements on it but aside from that
I don't know where you can get more info. The whole thing has been kept
fairy quiet by the powers that be.
EFF Action Page:
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr010=9gkflm4hz1.app2a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=383
EFF's Comments:
http://www.eff.org/issues/acta/acta-submission-032108.pdf
US GOV Provided Fact Sheet:
http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2007/asset_upload_file122_13414.pdf
Related Blog Post:
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1071
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Brian Rowe | 1 Aug 2008 01:32

Re: FC Reaching Out To Development Communities?

I strongly support this direction for FC.  One of the major challenges of forming a chapter at Seattle University Law was the misconception that FC was just about stopping RIAA.  Adding a develping nations focus area to our agenda would do alot to express the philosophy behind FC and broaden our support.  Pharmaceuticals, technology transfer, traditional knowldge, and access to knowlege are all strong focus areas.  Partnering with the UAEM or a Human Rights group on a campaing would be ideal.

-Brian

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg.grossmeier <at> gmail.com> wrote:
Kevin Donovan wrote:
> I'm working to bring OpenCourseWare to Georgetown (tips appreciated!)
> and hopefully it will focus on the role of open educational resources to
> help developing countries. I'd love to help out with any projects
> regarding this dev+FC and imagine the folks at http://freedomforip.org/
> would, as well.

I would point you to what the University of Michigan is doing.  And not
only because I am a part of the group working on it.

The difference between what Michigan is doing and what others like MIT
are doing is that Michigan's is sustainable WITHOUT gobs of money.

At MIT, they have a full time staff that the profs send their materials
to, if the staff can't clear copyright on a image or something they send
a request out to someone in India to make a replacement.

What Michigan is doing (just started this past year) is to elicit the
help of students.  A student who is enrolled in the class will be the
one vetting the material, asking the prof for citations, and even
redrawing a flow diagram if need be.  They will be "paid" in class
credits or a nominal fee (for the Business school students mainly, who,
at least at Michigan, won't do anything without a monetary reward... but
I digress).

For more information see: http://open.umich.edu  and
https://open.umich.edu/projects/oer.php in particular.

Hope that helps.

Greg
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Re: FC Reaching Out To Development Communities?

Greg, that's great to hear. I'd look at open.michigan but didn't realize the method in which you were doing it. I've already circulated my draft proposal, but think the ideas you guys are using are great.

All, since this seems to be something supported fairly widely, let's get a session on it at the Conference. (btw, I notice that UAEM is having a conference at Berkeley the weekend after us: http://www.essentialmedicine.org/)

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg.grossmeier <at> gmail.com> wrote:
Kevin Donovan wrote:
> I'm working to bring OpenCourseWare to Georgetown (tips appreciated!)
> and hopefully it will focus on the role of open educational resources to
> help developing countries. I'd love to help out with any projects
> regarding this dev+FC and imagine the folks at http://freedomforip.org/
> would, as well.

I would point you to what the University of Michigan is doing.  And not
only because I am a part of the group working on it.

The difference between what Michigan is doing and what others like MIT
are doing is that Michigan's is sustainable WITHOUT gobs of money.

At MIT, they have a full time staff that the profs send their materials
to, if the staff can't clear copyright on a image or something they send
a request out to someone in India to make a replacement.

What Michigan is doing (just started this past year) is to elicit the
help of students.  A student who is enrolled in the class will be the
one vetting the material, asking the prof for citations, and even
redrawing a flow diagram if need be.  They will be "paid" in class
credits or a nominal fee (for the Business school students mainly, who,
at least at Michigan, won't do anything without a monetary reward... but
I digress).

For more information see: http://open.umich.edu  and
https://open.umich.edu/projects/oer.php in particular.

Hope that helps.

Greg
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Kevin (or anyone else),

If you are interested in learning more about Michigan's method I could 
put you in contact with the right people.

Greg

Kevin Donovan wrote:
> Greg, that's great to hear. I'd look at open.michigan but didn't realize 
> the method in which you were doing it. I've already circulated my draft 
> proposal, but think the ideas you guys are using are great.
> 
> All, since this seems to be something supported fairly widely, let's get 
> a session on it at the Conference. (btw, I notice that UAEM is having a 
> conference at Berkeley the weekend after us: 
> http://www.essentialmedicine.org/)
> 
> Kevin
> 
> --
> Kevin Donovan
> Georgetown '11: SFS
> www.blurringborders.com <http://www.blurringborders.com>
> 
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier 
> <greg.grossmeier <at> gmail.com <mailto:greg.grossmeier <at> gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Kevin Donovan wrote:
>      > I'm working to bring OpenCourseWare to Georgetown (tips appreciated!)
>      > and hopefully it will focus on the role of open educational
>     resources to
>      > help developing countries. I'd love to help out with any projects
>      > regarding this dev+FC and imagine the folks at
>     http://freedomforip.org/
>      > would, as well.
> 
>     I would point you to what the University of Michigan is doing.  And not
>     only because I am a part of the group working on it.
> 
>     The difference between what Michigan is doing and what others like MIT
>     are doing is that Michigan's is sustainable WITHOUT gobs of money.
> 
>     At MIT, they have a full time staff that the profs send their materials
>     to, if the staff can't clear copyright on a image or something they send
>     a request out to someone in India to make a replacement.
> 
>     What Michigan is doing (just started this past year) is to elicit the
>     help of students.  A student who is enrolled in the class will be the
>     one vetting the material, asking the prof for citations, and even
>     redrawing a flow diagram if need be.  They will be "paid" in class
>     credits or a nominal fee (for the Business school students mainly, who,
>     at least at Michigan, won't do anything without a monetary reward... but
>     I digress).
> 
>     For more information see: http://open.umich.edu  and
>     https://open.umich.edu/projects/oer.php in particular.
> 
>     Hope that helps.
> 
>     Greg
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Re: FC Reaching Out To Development Communities?

Definitely. That would be a great help. Thanks.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg.grossmeier <at> gmail.com> wrote:
Kevin (or anyone else),

If you are interested in learning more about Michigan's method I could
put you in contact with the right people.

Greg

Kevin Donovan wrote:
> Greg, that's great to hear. I'd look at open.michigan but didn't realize
> the method in which you were doing it. I've already circulated my draft
> proposal, but think the ideas you guys are using are great.
>
> All, since this seems to be something supported fairly widely, let's get
> a session on it at the Conference. (btw, I notice that UAEM is having a
> conference at Berkeley the weekend after us:
> http://www.essentialmedicine.org/)
>
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin Donovan
> Georgetown '11: SFS
> www.blurringborders.com <http://www.blurringborders.com>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier
> <greg.grossmeier <at> gmail.com <mailto:greg.grossmeier <at> gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Kevin Donovan wrote:
>      > I'm working to bring OpenCourseWare to Georgetown (tips appreciated!)
>      > and hopefully it will focus on the role of open educational
>     resources to
>      > help developing countries. I'd love to help out with any projects
>      > regarding this dev+FC and imagine the folks at
>     http://freedomforip.org/
>      > would, as well.
>
>     I would point you to what the University of Michigan is doing.  And not
>     only because I am a part of the group working on it.
>
>     The difference between what Michigan is doing and what others like MIT
>     are doing is that Michigan's is sustainable WITHOUT gobs of money.
>
>     At MIT, they have a full time staff that the profs send their materials
>     to, if the staff can't clear copyright on a image or something they send
>     a request out to someone in India to make a replacement.
>
>     What Michigan is doing (just started this past year) is to elicit the
>     help of students.  A student who is enrolled in the class will be the
>     one vetting the material, asking the prof for citations, and even
>     redrawing a flow diagram if need be.  They will be "paid" in class
>     credits or a nominal fee (for the Business school students mainly, who,
>     at least at Michigan, won't do anything without a monetary reward... but
>     I digress).
>
>     For more information see: http://open.umich.edu  and
>     https://open.umich.edu/projects/oer.php in particular.
>
>     Hope that helps.
>
>     Greg
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Ideas for boycotting Scrabble and Hasbro

Writes Nelson Pavlosky on our blog:

Do you feel that Hasbro's lawsuit against [Scrabulous][1] was rather
heavy-handed? Did you enjoy Scrabulous's revival of a 60-year-old game,
and do you resent Hasbro's [free-riding off of the innovators who made
Scrabulous][2]? Is it uncool that Hasbro used Scrabulous to make
Scrabble more popular, and then sued the Scrabulous developers once
Hasbro developed an official Facebook app?

Then perhaps it is time that you began boycotting Hasbro's Scrabble, in
all its forms. Why not:

  * **Refuse to use official Scrabble online games -** Let's face it,
they're [not as good as Scrabulous was][3], anyway. You can join the
Facebook group [We refuse to use official Scrabble app since Hasbro shut
down Scrabulous][4] or probably a dozen others like it.

  * **Continue playing Scrabulous anyway - **Hasbro does not own the
copyrights to Scrabble outside the USA and Canada, some other company
does. So, if you connect to Facebook from an IP address located outside
the US and Canada, then you can continue playing Scrabulous just like
the good old days. [This Facebook group][5] has easy instructions on how
to do so, by connecting to Facebook through a proxy server. A silver
lining to this lawsuit might be getting more people using the [Firefox
web browser][6] and the [FoxyProxy][7] add-on.

  * **Avoid buying products from Hasbro - **Do you really need a new
Scrabble board? Aren't there a gazillion Scrabble boards floating around
people's attics and garage sales that you could pick up for a song? Same
thing goes for other Hasbro games! Exercise your first sale rights and
buy used games instead.

  * **If you have a Scrabble board, don't play Scrabble on it, play a
different word game -** What's so good about the exact copyrighted
version of Scrabble anyway? The Scrabulous developers realized this and
[released the more flexible Wordscraper][8], a Scrabble-esque game that
lets you change the board/rules. If you have a physical Scrabble board,
there are innumerable word games you could play with it. You could use
the tiles to play [Anagrams][9], a lovely fast-paced party game that
predates Scrabble, or perhaps even [Bananagrams][10]. Or, create your
own entirely new word game, and go down in history as the inventor of
something even better than Scrabble!

  * **Make your own Scrabble-esque boards -** Why buy it when you can
make it yourself? The tiles might be a bit tricky (although a [RepRap 3d
printer][11] would probably make short work of it once it's generally
available to the public) but it should be child's play to draw a grid
and fill in the boxes with double word scores or more interesting
variations.

Honestly, Hasbro's rent-seeking with the Scrabble copyright is a really
annoying example of how copyright can hinder creativity rather than
encouraging it. Scrabble was invented in 1938, and sold by the creator
in 1948 to someone who could commercialize it (not Hasbro, Hasbro bought
the copyright much later around 1986). How much real innovation has been
done since then with Scrabble by people who benefit from the copyright
royalties? Isn't it telling that the innovators here innovated without
benefiting from copyright controls or copyright royalties? This is a
clear case of copyright outlasting its usefulness. Perhaps more
importantly, I think it's rotten that Hasbro is shutting down Scrabulous
for bringing Scrabble to life again for a new generation… that's not a
proper reward. I'd love to send a message to Hasbro that their behavior
is really uncool. Just because Hasbro has the legal power to shut down
Scrabulous doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, either for their
bottom line (see [the Economist's cautious endorsement of piracy][12])
or for creativity in the field of gaming.

   [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabulous

   [2]: http://freedomforip.org/2008/07/31/hasbro-v-scrabulous-tm-in-a
-user-generated-world/

   [3]:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/1455219&tid=202

   [4]: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25544341610&ref=nf

   [5]: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22388656294&ref=nf

   [6]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

   [7]: http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/

   [8]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080731-scrabulous-goes-
for-bonus-points-relaunches-as-wordscraper.html

   [9]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagrams

   [10]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananagrams

   [11]: http://reprap.org/

   [12]:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11750492

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