Day October 7, 2011

Sao Paulo Passes Open Educational Resources Law

The city of Sao Paulo has adopted a law supported by REA-Brazil that requires the city to purchase open educational resources. Specifically the resources must be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA). The law will also require future…

California Law Allows Warrantless Searches of CD Plants

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla that would allow police to search disk manufacturing plants without a warrant, and seize equipment used to manufacture illegal copies.  Excerpt from S.B. 550: “Officers performing inspections may…