An interesting article from The Public Domain website about Congressional hearings on the 1909 Copyright Act.http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2009/07/17/were-we-smarter-100-years-ago/My comments:
An important point of clarification is in order here.  The piano rolls were not “sound recordings”. They were mechanical reproductions of compositions. The argument was that you couldn’t “read” a piano roll as you […]

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Recently, a question came up on the NMC (New Media Consortium) listserv about what is necessary to add music to a DVD for a class project,  This was my reply: Licenses with ASCAP, BMI, & SESAC allow the performance of compositions on campus.  These licenses do not apply to the creation of CDs or […]

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I received this message from the MERLOT Teacher Education Editorial Board today.
 
Dear Mr.Davis
 
Your scholarly work in instructional technology has been peer reviewed and published in MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching). The MERLOT project is an international initiative enabling faculty to integrate technology into higher education.  MERLOT is supported by 27 systems and […]

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