Last year, Prometheus, the German network of image archives, triggered controversy by claiming that it offered "open access" while charging access fees, limiting permissible uses beyond fair use, and threatening criminal penalties for violation. Now Klaus Graf reports that Prometheus has switched to the term "open content" --though it continues to charge for access and to limit permissible uses. For example, Prometheus prohibits copying its images, publishing them, and even sharing them with other scholars. It permits private and classroom use, but has no barrier-free section even for images in the public domain.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/11/2005 05:34:00 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.
