Peter Coffee on copyright in the February 3 issue of eWeek: The current rules of copyright law in the U.S. "are made by the ignorant at the behest of the selfish....Any demand for enforcement of copyright protections is...without foundation unless it offers a convincing connection to the promotion of scientific or artistic progress....The present-day business model of the record companies is a temporary artifact of a transitional stage in a developing technology. Those companies need to find new ways to add value, rather than demanding that legislators help them subtract it at the expense of technical progress and individual rights." (Thanks to C-FIT.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/07/2003 04:02:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
