RealNetworks sues the MPAA in anticipation of RealDVD lawsuit

Source: OLPC wiki Computerworld Australia reports that Peru will conduct the first trial of OLPC laptops with Windows XP instead of the custom Fedora build. The trial is to be conducted over the next nine months. Kids and their teachers in the country will use the laptops as part of efforts to introduce more technology into classrooms in Peru, including Microsoft’s Student Innovation Suite of software, which includes Microsoft Office 2003 as well as Learning Essentials 1.0 for M... more

Device Guru reports that Stanford has offered up 10 free courses under the title of “Stanford Engineering Everywhere.” The courses are licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported. Course participants do not register, and have no direct contact with Stanford instructors or professors. They do, however, have the ability to communicate online with other SEE students. A detailed SEE FAQ is available here. The University says SEE’s initial courses include “one of Stanford... more

Submissions for this year’s “100 Second Film Festival” are underway. The 100 Second Film Festival was launched in 2005. Anyone can submit to the festival as long as his piece is 100 seconds long and released under a CC “BY-NC-SA” license. The 100 Second Film Festival is “a collection of short videos presented to an audience in person or through the medium of cable television or the Internetâ€� with the only requirements being that the films are 100 seconds lo... more

The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Act of 2008, which recently went through the Senate Judiciary comittee may be fast-tracked soon. Now, the bill’s backers are pushing to have it pass the Senate as early as today via a streamlined procedure, without the full Senate voting on the measure. Tell members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that you don’t want your tax dollars spent on DOJ’s civil enforcement of copyright, and to put a hold on the bill. Go to the Public Knowledge lin... more