Reuters on Friday: "Taiwan has turned down a U.S. demand on Friday to extend copyrights...for another 20 years as negotiators on both sides held talks on intellectual property rights....Washington has used Taiwan's desire to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States as a bargaining chip....Outside the Board of Foreign Trade where the negotiation was held, dozens of college students protested against the U.S. demand, shouting `'Knowledge can't be monopolised.'''
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/13/2002 08:31:00 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.
