The new UK copyright statute has been made public for a two month comment period. In the August 21 London Times, David Rowan reports on its repressive features. "The law, among other things, will redefine 'fair dealing' ['fair use' in the US] involving intellectual property — giving copyright owners new powers to limit what can be quoted in academic reviews, and potentially restricting the electronic information the public can access through libraries, and it will let copyright holders track the use of their data online. Some copyright breaches will also now become criminal rather than civil offences — such as any attempts to protect yourself from this third-party surveillance while online."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/27/2002 03:44:00 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.
