From kde-promo  Wed Mar 07 17:13:24 2012
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:13:24 +0000
To: kde-promo
Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Subtopic: KDE and Ebook --- Spark and KDE and Tablet-Projects for Schools in Nieders
Message-Id: <201203071813.34650.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
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On Tuesday, 2012-03-06, Ulrich Drolshagen wrote:
> Am 06.03.2012 18:57, schrieb Daniel Rohde-Kage:
> > That's only partially right. Meanwhile reality catches up with this
> > situation, because so many teachers use internet-content, educational
> > contents from broadcasting-stations (TV/radio), private sites and
> > community-ressources and so on. And for Niedersachsen there's no
> > solution in sight: It seems that there will be two universes with
> > different contents: publishing-companies and more or less private
> > content, which is intended to be bundled as Open Education Ressourcen
> > (OER) and should or will become a part of the 'Merlin'
> > Online-Ressources. On education trade fair Didacta2012 German
> > schoolbook-publishers didn't arrive an agreement about
> > schoolbook-distribution.
>=20
> That is not new. Teachers have done that former times with chissors,
> glue and photocopier.  The new thing is that we digitize the material so
> that it is freely distributable. This is obviously usefull (that's why
> we are doing it) and at the same time highly illegal.  The departments
> of education are not willing to pay for this practice so the content
> owners insist on means to control what is stored on our servers. We had
> a discussion about some school trojan crawling school nets for illegal
> content lately.

Just a side note: this would have to be verified by a legal expert. Content=
=20
right holders are notorious for trying to make people believe that what the=
y=20
are doing is illegal while actual law says otherwise.

Aside from the very common right to do citations, countries have often spec=
ial=20
exceptions for educational purposes.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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