phil gillman: January 2008 Archives

Due to a lack of quality educational materials on Intellectual Property Rights, Microsoft wanted to sponsor a set of curriculum with a web component. Working closely with an educational curriculum company, our team came up with the idea of creating a site that allowed users to create content and choose how to share it. Now in Beta, the mybytes site allows kids to create a ringtone via an online music mixer. In order to publish their tone, they have to assign rights to it. Additionally, they have the ability to purchase (via a virtual economy) or steal the work of others, but their actions are transparent to anyone that looks. This site connects with in classroom activities via the IPR Education initiative and is also designed to stand alone.

mybytes music mixer and site (beta) mybytes.com >>
IPR Education initiative ipreducation.com >>