OpenCourseWare

Current copyright law is the hot topic of the day. And Professer Scrooges of American Society are stepping up and demanding that no one gets a taste of a free education or help with coursework that Scrooges themselves didnt provide!

Science Netlinks reports, "Throughout human history, most people live and die in the social class into which they were born. If they were born poor, chances are they will die poor. One way societies can help people rise in social class is to initiate new enterprises, like improved educational opportunities or technological advancements. When this happens, the need for workers in higher-class jobs motivates and enables people to move up in social class, which can help them to escape poverty"

A large open education movement already exists primarily supported by The Hewlett Foundation supports an open source education, as well as well as Wikipedia's co founder James Sanger.

I await longingly to see a future where American Society thrive to see students self-actualize without rules! Are poor kids ever going to get a chance to escape the chains that bind them? Or is selling drugs, going to jail, and living on welfare a better option? I'd love to see a economically "poor" students sit down in front of a computer and through OpenCourseWare rise above socioeconomical barriers that bind them!

We will call University of Florida professor Michael Moulton the Scrooge of the week! According to Ryan Singal, with the Wired Blog Network, "Moulton and his e-textbook publisher are suing Thomas Bean, who runs a company that repackages and sells student notes, arguing that the business is illegal since notes taken during college lectures violate the professor's copyright
But if a professor's lectures are copyrighted, aren't students already infringing just by taking the notes in the first place?

Yes, Sullivan answers, student notes do infringe, but they are protected infringement.
"That's absolutely fair use," Sullivan said."Hmm! Wow Scrooge gets to provide fair use! I guess he may be scared someone will self-actualize faster than he can on his theories and ideas!

David Kravets with the Wired Blog Network reports, "And we know that that Big Media is going to jump on the band wagon to prevent anything that may stifle their probanganda pumping priniciples! "Disney, CBS, Microsoft, Fox, NBC, Viacom, Dailymotion, MySpace and Veoh Networks announced so-called User Generated Content Principles that appear aimed at stifling fair use. The announcement calls for the "implementation of state of the art filtering technology with the goal to eliminate infringing content on (user-generated content services), including blocking infringing uploads before they are made available to the public."

Thank God for Utube and if Fair Use Supporters are getting ready to be taken down I will be at every protest possible! This is a country founded on the power of the people not corporations!