The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property adopted the bill yesterday in a straight party-line vote in which all the Republicans were in favor and all the Democrats opposed. In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrea Foster writes (accessible only to subscribers), "Scientists and groups representing colleges and academic libraries have long opposed legislation that would offer broad intellectual-property protections for databases. Such protections could stifle scholarship, they say. But the Association of American Universities, the American Council on Education, and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges agreed on Wednesday to withdraw their opposition to the legislation after the bill's sponsors revised it to shield accredited nonprofit colleges and nonprofit research laboratories from liability." Also see Roy Mark's coverage in today's InternetNews.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/17/2003 01:21:00 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.
