In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrea Foster introduces the Creative Commons to academics. Michael Carroll, an assistant professor at Villanova University School of Law and member of the CC board of directors, argues that scientists and scholars are natural users of Creative Commons because they "are less interested in retaining all rights to their works than in seeing them widely distributed."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/09/2003 09:39:00 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.
