Finland has reformed its copyright law. Finns may not import pirated content, but they may circumvent copy protection for private use and delete the regional coding on DVD players. A special tax on blank media goes to a fund that compensates copyright holders for unathorized private copies. Journalists and photographers, rather than their employers, retain the copyrights to their work.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/13/2002 08:58:00 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.
