Teaching, Learning, Technology & Reflection

This article is a list of annotation of selected additional resources for each module in the CC Certificate course that I took June to August 2020.   Unit 1 What is creative commons HOW I LOST THE BIG ONE  by Lawrence Lessig, in Legal Affairs, March/April 2004.  Copyright status: All rights reserved.  Relevant section: Unit 1.1. The Story of Creative Commons, in the last paragraph of acquiring essential knowledge.  Annotation: This is a long article and I read it with interest to know the first-hand details of this case. Lawyers will definitely be interested in all the legal details behind. For me (not a lawyer), I read it with curiosity and found it a valuable resource. Lessig retold the story of his client Eldred--how he got started in digitizing and archiving classical works in the public domain and how he was frustrated by the further extended copyright term through CTEA. It helps readers to know the context of the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case much bet...

Context Since 2012, I have been directing the Center for Language Technology (past name Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment). This is a center with a very modest size (one full time non-teaching faculty, me, as the director, and four full time staff, and several part-time lab assistants) that serves a large group of faculty and graduate students who teach world languages at Indiana University--more than 50 different languages are taught on the Bloomington campus each Fall and Spring semester in the past years. This center has maintained a web-based portal of language archives that cover all the languages that have been taught at Indiana University, as well as analogue materials that have been digitized.  These materials have been given to  CeLT by various instructors as instructional materials to be shared with students. Some of them are copyrighted materials shared with password protection, used under Fair Use guidelines. Some of these were instructor ...