http://madisonian.net/2006/08/21/multiple-egalitarianisms-roadblock-or-detour/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Thu, 10 May 2012 20:32:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/08/21/multiple-egalitarianisms-roadblock-or-detour/comment-page-1/#comment-72163 madisonian.net » Egalitarian Copyright (3): The Trouble With Copyrighting Test Questions (and Test Prep Materials) Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:24:13 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=749#comment-72163 [...] And finally…why is this part of the Egalitarian Copyright series? ThankMichael Walzer’s analysis of commodification in Spheres of Justice. Walzer develops an “open ended distributive principle,” whereby “No social good x should be distributed to men and women who possess some other good y merely because they possess y and without regard to the meaning of x.” In the case of education, there is an ongoing debate over the exact criteria of merit that should govern the distribution of admissions slots at colleges and professional schools. However, there should be consensus that using money to get “inside information” about tests is a troubling development. The law should try to ameliorate the differential access of poor and rich to courses designed to prepare them for the SAT, LSAT, MBE, and other pivotal tests. Trackback URL: http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/08/28/egalitarian-copyright-3-the-trouble-with-copyrighting-test-questions-and-test-prep-materials/trackback/ [...] [...] And finally…why is this part of the Egalitarian Copyright series? ThankMichael Walzer’s analysis of commodification in Spheres of Justice. Walzer develops an “open ended distributive principle,” whereby “No social good x should be distributed to men and women who possess some other good y merely because they possess y and without regard to the meaning of x.” In the case of education, there is an ongoing debate over the exact criteria of merit that should govern the distribution of admissions slots at colleges and professional schools. However, there should be consensus that using money to get “inside information” about tests is a troubling development. The law should try to ameliorate the differential access of poor and rich to courses designed to prepare them for the SAT, LSAT, MBE, and other pivotal tests. Trackback URL: http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/08/28/egalitarian-copyright-3-the-trouble-with-copyrighting-test-questions-and-test-prep-materials/trackback/ [...]

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