The second reading of the Digital Economy Bill (#debill) has been confirmed for the 6th April 2010.

We are now entering the time for “wash-up” of unfinished business before Dissolution of Parliament which apparently was announced by MP Tom Watson earlier today at the Games Based Learning Conference.

The #debill has caused much debate in the Internet community together with lobbying for and against but very little quality and detailed debate by the elected Ministers of Parliament has occurred. Many letters have been sent by constituents to their MP’s and under the FOI Act one letter has a note from MP Clare Short in which she confesses "I am afraid I do not really understand the complaint but I would be grateful for your response." which highlights the issue rather well.

38 Degrees has teamed up with the Open Rights Group in providing an easy to use means of sending a letter to your MP requesting proper debate on this bill (copy of response from MP William Hague).

If you live in the UK this Bill could affect you both domestically and professionally. The articles by The Guardian and a brief from the Open Rights Group provide a good way of “getting up to speed” on this Bill and the issues surrounding it.

This Julian Sanchez 8-minute video on remix culture talks about how this isn't just about sitting around your house remixing, but often turns into a social event among remixers and their friends.

via boing boing (@boingboing)

CCPlus allows you to clearly add a human, legal and machine readable Creative Commons (CC) licence to your work PLUS clearly highlighting to users how they can obtain any additional rights not granted by the CC licence.

As the term OER (Open Educational Resources) gains traction the definition of what makes an educational resource Open in terms of licensing is a mixed picture.