The latest project of the Internet Archive is to bring public domain ebooks to the people --and to public consciousness. It has launched a bookmobile to drive across the country, starting in East Palo Alto on September 30. The bookmobile will arrive in Washington D.C. on October 8, the day before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the case challenging the Bono Copyright Extension Act that steals from the public domain and gives to private individuals and corporations. Wherever the bookmobile stops, people can step inside, download any of 9,000 public domain books from the archive, print them out, and take them home, all free of charge. See Annalee Newitz's story in AlterNet. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/18/2002 10:07:00 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.
