Using Generative AI in Academics
Video credit: Generative AI: what is it good for? – posted by The Economist on YouTube Watch Think Explore Links Discuss Think Explore Generative AI (GenAI), a type of artificial intelligence that can produce text, images, audios, videos and other media in response to prompts, is a rapidly developing technology that has stormed the world […]
Sovereignty and Tradition: Indigenous Knowledge & Open Educational Resources
Sovereignty and Tradition: Indigenous Knowledge & Open Educational Resources What’s an OER? With rising publication costs and tuition fees, there is a movement challenging the exclusivity of academic research that contributes to educational inaccessibility. Academic publishing companies charge institutions thousands of dollars to lease the rights to the research that their own faculty and students […]
Digital Identity Digest (January 2019)
What is the best educational measure against piracy? Canada’s government has amended its Copyright Act to clarify that piracy notices can’t demand cash from Canadians. The piracy-notice system took effect in 2015, allowing “copyright holders to send warning emails to people suspected of illegally downloading content such as movies or music,” CBC explains. According to […]
In the News: Screen Composers Guild of Canada Proposes ‘Copyright Tax’ On Internet Use
A proposal by the Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC) to The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, released on September 25, 2018, aims to introduce a ‘copyright tax’ on Internet use, according to the documents released by TorrentFreak [1] In the report [2], the SCGC proposed a tax collected by internet service providers “that is […]
Access Copyright
Watch Think Explore Links Discuss Think Explore The Canadian Copyright Act details the rights of copyright holders, which states that, by default, copyright gives absolute rights to creators over their original work. Those wishing to reproduce said work must therefore acquire permission from the copyright holder. It is considered an infringement of copyright to […]
Digital Piracy – Who Decides What is Considered Pirated Material? The Changing Face of Copyright Judgement in Canada (Part 3)
What is the IPRA? The Internet Piracy Review Agency (IPRA) is a proposed non-profit corporation by a coalition of companies including Bell Canada, Rogers, Cineplex, CBC, Corus, Toronto International Film Festival, and Cinémas Guzzo (collectively known as Fair Play Canada) to maintain a list of websites that have hosted or distributed pirated material and force […]
DT Podcast – Episodes 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access, now available
The Digital Tattoo Podcast – Ep. 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access 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 topics after considering the life of Aaron Swartz, an American […]
The Digital Tattoo Podcast: Episode 1 and 2 about Copyright and Open Access are now available
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 […]
Illegal downloading prosecutions over? Think again
If you thought there was nothing to worrying about, you’re wrong. In a Minnesota courtroom this past month, single mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was ordered to pay 62,500 USD per song for 24 songs she illegally downloaded from KaZaA, a popular file sharing site. AFP reported that the total fine given was an astronomical 1.5 million dollars. […]
“Could you patent the sun?”
Despite all the ink dedicated to open access as a new publishing model it is in fact an old way. Take for example, Dr. Jonas Salk. Unknown thousands, maybe even you, owe their ability to walk to Dr. Salk. How so? He invented the vaccine for Polio in 1952. The research, creation, and funding of […]
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