Homeland security v. DMCA....Of all people, Richard Clarke, cybersecurity czar for the Bush Administration, has said in public that the DMCA ought to be amended to permit scholars to publish their research on security holes and vulnerabilities. (PS: It's not really surprising that someone charged with homeland security would call for the freedom to publish computer security research. But it does break the pattern we've seen since 9/11 in which the executive and legislative branches of government one-sidedly view academic freedom more as a threat than a support to national security.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/20/2002 10:37:00 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.
