Quoting Fred von Lohmann, attorney for the EFF: "Fair use, free expression, and legitimate science have all suffered collateral damage in Hollywood's war on piracy. How many more scientists, hobbyists, and legitimate competitors have to be threatened or sued before we all admit that the DMCA is not working?"
Quoting Bollier: "Preserving the information commons may not be a topic of kitchen-table conversation just yet. But it is fast becoming a hot issue. With a few more turns of the screw by the content autocrats -- snooping on people's computers, lawsuits against individual file-sharers, intrusive new attempts to control personal behavior -- the fledgling movement to reclaim popular control of the information commons may explode into a mainstream juggernaut. None too soon."
The first installment in Bollier's three-part series came out on July 25.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/12/2002 10:36:00 AM.
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.
