John Palfrey

Posted by arvind s grover Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:36:00 GMT

I saw John Palfrey [his blog], Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society speak today at the New York Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) Conference for IT Managers today. What a tremendous speaker, and I couldn’t be more envious of his job – basically to think about all the amazing new technologies and how they are impacting the world. Cool, right?

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Abusing the Photocopier

Posted by arvind s grover Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:09:00 GMT

Our friends in the Legislature created law that allows educators to use copywritten material in their classrooms—it’s called Fair Use. There are restrictions of course. With those restrictions comes an hyper-complicated set of rules that you need a team of lawyers to decipher.

There are some good groups out there trying to make these rules as easy to understand as possible. Try these if you need some help:

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