Yesterday I worried the anti-FOS lobby would make gains in the new Republican Congress. I still worry about that, because the federal government is one of the leading suppliers of FOS in the U.S. and publishers resent it. But not all the news is bad. Declan McCullagh assesses the implications of the Republican victory for tech issues in News.com. For example, Fritz Hollings has been kicked out of the chairman's seat at the Senate Commerce Committee, to be replaced by John McCain. This may be the end of the CBDTPA. McCullagh also cites an industry scorecard showing that Republicans voted with the tech industry (which generally opposes the content industry) 84% of the time, while the Democrats did so only 65% of the time.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/07/2002 10:16:00 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.
