More on the DMCA exemptions....In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrea Foster reports on the arguments submitted by university and library groups that scholarly work should be exempt from the DMCA anti-circumvention clause in order to permit fair use by researchers. "Researchers and scholars maintain that they must be able to bypass the access-control devices and view digital texts and images without fear of breaking the law. The groups note that academic users have long been able to view nonelectronic copyrighted material under existing fair-use provisions of copyright law." The groups also complain that the Copyright Office's standard of proof --evidence of actual damage without the exemption-- is too high, requiring researchers to forego existing resources, and damage their research projects, in order to accumulate the evidence of damage.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/20/2002 08:18:00 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.
