thoughtful piece on universities as copyright warriors

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/03/universities-as-copyright-warriors.html

I like this argument.

This Friday I found myself in a stimulating discussion with some very smart people about big picture, strategic directions for our institution.  I think I would have to add the necessity to change how we deal with education and copyright to any list of strategic directions. 

(Others being the work to move to a student-centered, active learning approach and away from a faculty-centric, information scarcity model. Another direction suggested at the meeting is to develop a culture of evidence in decision making).

Weller's list is concise and well reasoned.  Some of his suggestions that I find particularly insightful include:

• Legitimize the mashup
• Make creative commons a default
• Use material we find online
• Teach and encourage attribution and reference
• Release archive content

Weller expands on all these ideas.  Would be interested to hear folks who disagree with this post both in general and its particulars.