Monday, September 18, 2006

Michael Feldstein's Advice about Fighting EduPatents I like Michael Feldstein's recommendation about how to proactively fight the Blackboard patent by urging passage of the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust Act. ___JH _____ "There is a bill in committee in both houses of the U.S. Congress right now. It’s called the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT) Act. I just published an article with the details, but the gist is that it would take the estimated $20 billion in proceeds from the impending sale of analog television spectrum and put it into a trust for developing digital content and technologies for education. The annual interest on the trust is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $1 billion. That’s one billion dollars. Every year. Going toward creating educational content and educational technology." (e-Literate, September 14, 2006.) 10:39:06 AM    COMMENT []