Chris Nolan, Creative Licensing Scheme Grabs Artists' Attention, eWeek, September 29, 2004. Excerpt: "Is the intellectual property licensing scheme known as Creative Commons picking up steam? The answer, it seems, is a cautious "yes." And that—despite the organization's demurring --could have political implications. 'It's picking up,' Commons director Glenn Otis Brown says. 'The last six months, we feel like it's a completely different organization.' The licensing scheme's popularity is clearly growing, increasing by a steady 50 percent every fiscal quarter for the past year, according to the Commons' traffic and other records. More than 4 million sites—of the 5 billion searched regularly the Web—have some kind of license....And as evidence of the idea's popularity, [Danny Weitzner of the World Wide Web Consortium] cites a recent decision by Congress to require the National Institutes of Health to make the papers and studies it funds open and free to the public, not just available through journals or other costly or limited-circulation publications. 'There's beginning to be a kind of larger, open-access movement,'' Weitzner says.' " (PS: There's a connection but this isn't it. The NIH plan will not use CC licenses. Some open-access providers do and some don't. BTW, for newcomers, the open-access movement isn't just beginning.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/30/2004 09:45:00 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.
