Three Part Podcast on Laptops in the Classroom

Here is my first foray into the wonderful world of podcast production. The subject of laptops in the classroom is enormous. My head is congested.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

"Fair Use Has a Posse"

A great examination of the restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM) and its relationship to "fair use".

The British Library has issued a 'manifesto' decrying the restrictive nature of the DRM which they feel may in the long run restrictive knowledge only to those who can pay for it.
go to- http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/09/fair_use_has_a_posse.html

I agree with the article and the manifesto. Andy Carvin argues that fair use is restricted by DRM and even educational uses, scholarly uses are restricted unfairly. His point-they are more restrictive than the law requires them to be. In fact-
"they randomly selected 30 different online database they subscribe to - scholarly databases, news database and the like. Of these 30 databases, 28 of them had contracts “found to be more restrictive than rights that currently exist within copyright law.”"

Is the copyright culture eroding fair use. Andy Carvin thinks so. So does the British Museum.