digital age

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School releases a white paper: “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age.”

The paper can be downloaded without charge at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications

The paper explores whether innovative educational uses of technology, especially for teaching, are hampered by current copyright law. The paper found that copyright law along with business and institutional structures shaped by the law are major obstacles to “realizing the potential of digital technology in education.”