e-Clippings (Learning As Art)

Of General Interest to Edupatents

(from the Washington Post) (be aware - read this soon before it passes into the archive...and please explain to me why I have to pay for OLD news?)
"Two of the country's leading industries, computer technology and drug manufacturing, are battling over an effort by Congress to overhaul the way inventors profit from ideas, with executives on both sides saying billions of dollars are at stake." (link)

Great account from David Weinberger of the NFL trying to use DMCA to take down a 30 second clip showing its copyright notice

Google and MSFT to Clash Over Copyrights

I know that this may not be dead-on the edupatents topic - i.e. it doesn't talk about how evil bb is - but, anytime that Google and Microsoft go at each other, our communities will be affected. This CNN article lays out the basics, including the most important point for me, which is that MSFT is allied with the American Association of Publishers...not casting stones, just saying that the AAP is clearly the side interested in maintaining and growing systems of control.

You ever get that feeling that sometimes you are one of those ancient Greeks or Romans, watching thunder and lightning happen on Mt Olympus and wondering what the gods are fighting about?