Category Archives: Digital Democracy

An Open Casket After All

By Michael Feldstein | October 30, 2007

Update: The intrepid Jim Farmer has also posted a copy of the D2L entry in the immagic eLibrary.
As it turns out, one of your fellow e-Literate readers saved the D2L post and pasted it into the comments section of my last post.
I love you guys.

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Backward University IP Polices Force Convoluted Sakai License

By Michael Feldstein | October 17, 2007

A couple of weeks back, I was somewhat disturbed to read a post by Unicon’s John Lewis on the forthcoming Version 2.0 of the Educational Commons License (ECL), which is used by both the Sakai and the Kuali projects. While pointing out some significant improvements over the previous version, John notes correctly that the proliferation [...]

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Court Re-affirms Invalidation of First 35 Blackboard Patent Claims

By Michael Feldstein | October 16, 2007

This just in from the D2L patent blog:

On August 4, we announced that Magistrate Judge Hines had issued his Memorandum Opinion Construing Claim Terms of the United States Patent No. 6,988,138 (the “Markman” decision). We noted that the decision was subject to procedural appeal. The decision rendered claims 1-35 invalid. On August 22, we [...]

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On Edupatents, Corporate Branding, and Putting Words in People’s Mouths

By Michael Feldstein | September 19, 2007

There’s a write-up of the edupatent flap in eSchool News. It provides a reasonably good summary of the basic history, as far as these types of stories tend to go, and also gives a high-level account of the current state of the legal battle. (Short version: It’s dragging on.) All in all, it’s a useful [...]

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Should Universities Patent Their Research? Universities Say Yes. But should they?

By Jim Farmer | August 26, 2007

This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.
At the December 2006 Sakai Conference in Atlanta many expressed the view that patents inhibit collaboration and innovation in teaching and learning. But that was not the view expressed by higher [...]

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