Here is an interview with Scott Osterweil from MIT Education Arcade. Scott is being interviewed by Professor Eric Klopfer during the MOOC I recently completed, Design and Development of Learning Games. Scott is discussing the design and development of the game, Lure of the Labyrinth. PSA is interested in many aspects of this MOOC including the quality of the MOOC video interviews.
Admin: I took this link from YouTube and found this message,” This video is unlisted. Be considerate and think twice before sharing”. The earlier video I shared from my course was uploaded to DropBox and then linked to the PSA site. Hope this is not my “first strike” on YouTube.
Sharing is a very complicated question. Generally, since we are sharing for educational purposes only, and are a non profit with a IRS mission statement to do what we are doing, and have no commercial return from sharing….PSA has wide latitude for what is acceptable when it comes to copyright law.
As to what rules YouTube may wish to impose for sharing videos uploaded to their site, and the various arrangements that they offer users of their service, that’s also in flux, and not totally defined.
Maybe if something is said to “unlisted” at YouTube we should think twice before sharing as it says, but if it’s for educational purposes, and we attribute the file appropriately, then it comes down to whether the “owner” would be pleased for us to share it or not.
It’s a pain, but maybe when we really aren’t sure, we can email the creator and ask permission to share at PSA. Julia P. asked us, after we put one of her online available papers into our media library, not to share that particular document for specific reasons of getting her PHD and publishing rules thereof. So we removed it from our library.
But she currently offers similar documents for sharing at a variety of sites with no expressed limitations , so generally I think she would approve of us sharing her posts here, or linking to them. We can discuss this with her during our hoped for interview this summer some point.
Fascinating to watch the evolution of digital rights in all it’s complexity and grey areas. Some things just don’t lend themselves to black and white, and digital rights is one of those, that won’t be “settled” or “agreed upon” fully anytime soon.