More on the halt of UCITA....Carol Ebbinghouse reports the story in today's Information Today, focusing on the response of librarians and consumers. Quoting Jean Braucher, law professor at the University of Arizona: "It is heartening to see NCCUSL backing away from a very flawed statute, but it will never be able to write sound law for the information economy until it takes to heart the criticisms of the user sector. The debate is not just 'politics.' There are fundamental policy problems with UCITA."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/12/2003 07:43:00 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.
