http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/eff-tries-to-counter-industry-misinformation-on-copyright/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/eff-tries-to-counter-industry-misinformation-on-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-1070802 ficbot Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:45:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22871#comment-1070802 This is so interesting to me. I am gearing up for my summer job teaching computers at a camp, and I remember the director making the seven-year-olds sign contracts last year agreeing not to upload their work to YouTube because she was afraid it could get the camp sued. And I remember encouraging my Grade 2 students, who love Kid Pix, to check out Tux Paint (an open source alternative) at home and I was told by both kids and parents that they were sure it was illegal to download software at home. I explained to them, in some detail, why this was not always so, and how often the developers can benefit by releasing software in such a fashion by the free development and beta testing the fan community will do for them :) This is so interesting to me. I am gearing up for my summer job teaching computers at a camp, and I remember the director making the seven-year-olds sign contracts last year agreeing not to upload their work to YouTube because she was afraid it could get the camp sued. And I remember encouraging my Grade 2 students, who love Kid Pix, to check out Tux Paint (an open source alternative) at home and I was told by both kids and parents that they were sure it was illegal to download software at home. I explained to them, in some detail, why this was not always so, and how often the developers can benefit by releasing software in such a fashion by the free development and beta testing the fan community will do for them

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