Dan Gillmor's latest column is a call to join the copyright debate. "...I'm convinced that we can preserve our rights, if we can only persuade Congress that they're worth preserving. There's little or no constituency for fair use and other rights, partly because lawmakers are only hearing one side. But if the community of readers, listeners, viewers, scholars, researchers and others who don't 'own' copyrights doesn't at least challenge the terms of the debate, it will surely lose....When copyright owners extend the copyright terms of existing works, as they've done repeatedly in the past, they are taking works that would otherwise enter the public domain and keeping them private. That is a theft from the public, from you and me, and it surely amounts to tens of billions of dollars. So who's the real pirate?"
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/14/2002 03:08:00 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.
