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With many cloud storage and collaboration vendors implementing limits on free storage, colleges and universities are grappling with the impact on IT. 
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“Google Drive is expected to be a cloud-based storage offering with sync capabilities and will likely be integrated with Google Docs, Google Apps and may eventually be shipped with every Android phone, to boost usage. It will initially be rolled out as a web service, and on popular platforms like Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. Google may also offer a Google Drive API that developers can use to create apps that work with the service. Users will be charged for additional data beyond the free 5 GB limit.”
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Legal experts fear that drawn-out copyright cases like this could have a nasty effect on the quality of education. Just as iTunes offered a salvation to the music industry, universities are in desperate need of an electronic, yet pragmatic, solution for academic content. At Stanford University, a group of researchers drawn from the fields of computer science, law and higher education, are studying the requirements for a system to automate the copyright clearing process, known as the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange (SIPX). The Openlibrary service intends to roll out the SIPX technology campus-wide in 2012.
KF: This is an exciting solution, and while it seems to focus on the US version of copyright the principles involved could be adopted by Australian institutions in developing a regionally appropriate iteration.
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