In the March 1 News.com, Mark Lemos reports on the Berkeley DRM Conference. "[E]xperts from all circles seem to agree that more is going wrong than right with the current approach to protecting digital content. Moreover, they argue that current laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act --which makes cracking copyright protections illegal, even when otherwise acceptable under other laws-- are serving the extremes, not the mainstream populace."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/03/2003 08:36:00 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.