More on the state-level DMCAs....The MPAA-backed bill is facing informed and persuasive opposition in Massachusetts. Quoting an anonymous software expert at a legislative hearing yesterday: "When you've got Verizon, the American Electronics Association, Harvard Law School and the ponytail gang all against you, then you've got a problem."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/03/2003 11:18:00 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.
