We’ve been working on bringing you the same exciting digital identity content in a new format.
Introducing: The Digital Tattoo Podcast
The Digital Tattoo Podcast Project explores digital identity issues through interviews and investigations in an engaging audio format. Our first topic is copyright and open access at Canadian Universities.
We’ll explore these themes after considering the life of Aaron Swartz, an American political activist and programmer who co-created the website Reddit, helped launched Creative Commons, and faced a federal indictment for illegally downloading academic journal articles.
Swartz was a passionate advocate for open access. He believed that knowledge is the property of everyone and shouldn’t be hidden behind expensive subscription fees and paywalls. In 2013, after downloading millions of articles from JSTOR, and while facing a $1 million fine and 35-year prison sentence, he committed suicide.
We’ll ask these questions: Could what happened to Aaron Swartz happen in Canada? How well do we understand the laws around copyright? And what is open access all about? We dive into these issues through interviews with leading experts like Michael Geist, open access journals like the University of Toronto’s Medical Journal, a business lawyer specializing in intellectual property, and the public lead of Creative Commons Canada.
If you’re confused about how the laws around copyright in Canada work, this podcast is for you.
Listen to episode one, here.
Listen to episode two, here.
Great article…informative and helpful.
Thank you for your kind words! We’re happy you found it helpful.
nice Article
I’m looking for the podcast. I found what appears to be the digital tattoo podcasts (@citir) but it sounds like Narduwaar! I really want to link this for my high school kids to access. Could you forward me the correct link?
Hi Tom,
So glad you’ll be sharing this with your high school class – here’s the link to the first posted podcast in the series: http://www.citr.ca/radio/the-digital-tattoo-podcast-project/episode/20170922/
Oops you are right, Tom – the link has been directed to the wrong place – we are working on getting this fixed with our friends at CITR.
Thanks for letting us know and we’ll post an updated link as soon as it’s fixed.
Hi again,
CITR has kindly set us up with a temporary link until they solve the problem. You can access the first podcast episode about copyright and access to information: https://soundcloud.com/programming-citr/the-digital-tattoo-podcast-project-episode-1-copyright