Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧 @mackiwg@mastodon.oeru.org

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For our #Lida103 learners. See instructions on how to earn a free Certificate of Competency in Copyright and Creative Commons licensing here: https://course.oeru.org/lida103/assessment/how-to-certify-competency/ Good luck!

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@maruff Digital content is non-rivalrous in the sense that the supply is not reduced through consumption. The marginal cost of making a copy is near zero, and the original is still accessible. Consequently the #lida103 question is why apply restrictive "all rights reserved" copyright to digital learning materials? One possible answer is corporate control to generate artificial scarcity from an abundant resource. .../3

@maruff Copying content and claiming it as your own is ethically wrong - That's plagiarism and I can understand why you find it difficult to agree that copying is not theft .../2 #lida103

@maruff The "Copying is not Theft" video is intentionally provocative. We included this in #lida103 as a catalyst to think deeper about the rationale and motivations for "applying" copyright on digital resources .../1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4

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