Samuel Trosow, Copyright Protection for Federally Funded Research: Necessary Incentive or Double Subsidy? A preprint of the first scholarly article I've seen defending the Sabo bill. Trosow is on the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Excerpt: "Sabo’s Public Access to Science Act is an important attempt to place the unresolved yet increasingly pressing issue of public access to federally subsidized works on the policy agenda. In assessing the impacts of the Sabo Bill on the values underlying copyright policy, it is best to focus on two related questions: will the bill promote the progress of science, and how will the bill affect the incentive structure for the production of scholarly works? In the case of federally funded research, incentives have been provided to the author in advance, in the form of the research grant itself. To provide the same copyright protections that apply to a work made without this support constitutes a double subsidy. On the other hand, the limitations on open public access that results from copyrights held by private publishers are an unreasonable loss to expect the public to bear."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/03/2003 04:31:00 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.
