{"id":949,"date":"2014-05-07T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=949"},"modified":"2014-05-07T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:46:09","slug":"when-a-textbook-is-not-a-textbook-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2014\/05\/07\/when-a-textbook-is-not-a-textbook-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"When a textbook is not a textbook (redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2012\/09\/16\/copyright-and-the-pictureless-art-history-textbook\/\">OCAD&#8217;s textbook debacle<\/a> of a couple of years ago, law schools are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/blog\/worst-drm-now-infesting-physical-law-school-casebooks\">jumping into the fray<\/a> with ridiculous controls and DRM designed to use a textbook as a vehichle to perpetuate revenue streams rather than to teach students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move reminiscent of OCAD&#8217;s textbook debacle of a couple of years ago, law schools are now jumping into the fray with ridiculous controls and DRM designed to use a textbook as a vehichle to perpetuate revenue streams rather than to teach students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}