Digital Rights Management
Digital Rights and the Carrick Exchange
The management of digital rights, intellectual property and copyright are important issues in the higher education sector - for individual academics and for instititutions as a whole.
The Carrick Exchange is based on a user-participation model - that is, members of the higher education sector contribute their resources and ideas about teaching and learning for the benefit of all.
The higher education Think Tank in September 2006 identifed digital rights management as a barrier to contributions to the Carrick Exchange and sharing of resources within the higher education sector..
Addressing the issue of Digital Rights Management and the Carrick Exchange
To address the needs of the Carrick Exchange for the management of digital rights, education.au has undertaken an 'investigation' process. This investigation is made up of three parts.
- A project design
- An environmental scan
- Consultation with the higher education sector
Project design
The project design outlines the issues to be addressed by the consultation process. Find this document at the bottom of this page.
Envrionmental scan
The environmental scan document reviews the main issues around digital rights management in the higher education sector and reviews some of the major reports. The environmental scan document has been completed but is not yet publicly available.
Consultation with the higher education sector
education.au has established the Carrick Exchange DRM Investigation Reference Group and its Terms of Reference.
Some leading thinkers from the higher education sector involved in the DRM arena have been involved in conversations with education.au around the issues highlighed in the environmental scan document.
education.au has now invited the person at each university with responsibility for copyright and intellectual property issues to participate in the consultation process, as well as continuing the conversations with the others mentioned. There has been a solid amount of interest from the sector with 16 university representatives committed to participating. The first of the face-to-face meetings will be held in Sydney on 20 August 2007.
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