More on the Veeck case....SBCCI, the trade association that lost the appellate decision, is appealing to the Supreme Court. The briefs go the court later this month. SBCCI wrote a model building code and saw it enacted as public law in a number of U.S. jurisdictions. It wants to retain copyright on the public law, force citizens to purchase copies of it from SBCCI if they want to see the full text, and block citizens from putting the text of the public law on the internet.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/12/2002 08:07:00 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.
