In May, the NFAIS (National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services) released a white paper on Securing the Future of U.S. Intellectual Property and Scholarly Communication. The paper supports the DMCA anti-circumvention clause, and restrictive licenses, against the objections raised by librarians and scholars.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2002 12:45:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
