In the March issue of Scientific American, Gary Stix introduces the Creative Commons. Unlike other brief introductions, this one goes beyond the sharing-friendly licenses to the importance of making the licenses machine-readable. (PS: You know how to search for texts or images relevant to your work. But without CC, or without limiting your search to open archives, how could you search for something relevant that you're allowed to use without further permission?)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/20/2003 02:03:00 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.
