Category Positive Agenda

Reflections on our OER policy workshop in Berlin

Reposted from Open Educational Resources Policy in Europe, Link (CC-BY-SA) A week ago, the European Commission launched the “Opening Up Education” initiative, a proposal for modernizing the European educational system. The proposal contains a strong “open” component. We’re using this…

Wikipedia’s Economic Value

[Jonathan Band and Jonathan Gerafi]  In the copyright policy debate, proponents of strong copyright protection tend to be dismissive of the quality of freely available content. In response to counter-examples such as open access scholarly publications and advertising-supported business models…

Economists Discuss the State of Empirical Research on Copyright User Rights At American University Event

Yesterday, American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property held an even the Law and Economics of Copyright Users’ Rights.  The event was the launch of an interdisciplinary project to conduct empirical research on the effects of flexibility in…