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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Subtopic: KDE and Ebook --- Spark and KDE and Tablet-Projects for Schools in Nieders
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2012-03-07 17:13:24
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.
> 
> 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 
right holders are notorious for trying to make people believe that what they 
are doing is illegal while actual law says otherwise.

Aside from the very common right to do citations, countries have often special 
exceptions for educational purposes.

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

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