Michael Gaworecki, From the Campus to the Commons, AlterNet, December 20, 2004. Excerpt: 'The national, student-based Free Culture movement is built around protecting the "digital commons," or the potentially vast world of art and culture that belongs to everyone and can be owned by no one. Never heard of it? That's exactly what they're trying to change....[Bryn Mawr student Rebekah Baglini] wrote by e-mail..."The free culture movement is about taking advantage of the unprecedented opportunities we have today to learn, create, share, communicate, and progress culturally and intellectually. Technology offers us these opportunities, but we're finding that the law limits technology, sometimes in very negative ways."...Thanks to their primarily Internet-based organizing, Free Culture boasts chapters on 14 campuses, including Yale, Columbia, NYU and the University of Michigan.' (PS: If there's a Free Culture chapter on your campus, make sure that open access to research literature has its place on the agenda along side open-source software, copyright reform, file-sharing, and other free culture issues.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/21/2004 01:34:00 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.
