In a recent debate in the German Bundestag on a copyright amendment, the Green party again focused on the needs of science and scholarship rather than entertainment. Quoting party spokesperson Grietje Bettin: "Wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass das öffentlich generierte Wissen auch breit zugänglich gemacht wird." Read Stefan Krempl's German or Google's English. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/16/2002 09:32:00 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.
