More on the Baystate case....A group of scholars and librarians has filed a brief in the Baystate appeal. The group argues that unless clarified, the Baystate ruling implies that clickwrap licensing terms preempt federal copyright guarantees including fair-use rights. "A scholar could lose his fair-use privilege to quote a novel ... A library could lose its ability under the first-sale doctrine to lend books." (Thanks to Andrea Foster in the Chronicle of Higher Education.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/25/2002 09:10:00 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.
