Today's issue of Technology Daily PM Edition has two articles by William New on the US objections to a WIPO meeting on open source software and open access to science. Among the US arguments that WIPO should not hold the meeting: WIPO's mission is to protect intellectual property, not to consider whether it might be overprotecting it.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/20/2003 02:16:00 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.
