Farhad Manjoo, The mouse who would be king, Salon, April 8, 2004. (Free after watching a commercial.) Manjoo reviews Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture and Siva Vaidhyanatha's The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, two books that argue against current copyright laws. "It is difficult to read either of these books without worrying that the authors have already lost the fight," the reviewer writes despairingly. Much of the piece hinges on the idea that the Disney company gets the most benefit from the copyright extensions, and Manjoo points out the irony noted in Lessig's book that Disney made his first Mickey feature borrowing and parodying material from a Buster Keaton movie. (Source: Techdirt)
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Garrett at 4/08/2004 01:40:00 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.
