Ben Wallis, Moving from IP to A2K, Consumer, Spring 2005. Excerpt: 'A2K – an acronym for Access to Knowledge – is about widening the public's access to knowledge which is currently restricted by the rules of intellectual property (IP)....The public's access to knowledge is increasingly hindered by unbalanced IP rules that favour IP holders to the detriment of consumers. There is an urgent need to establish a treaty, or at least principles, to redress this imbalance as part of a 'development agenda'. This should be done in forums and meetings dealing with IP protection....What’s the vision? An overarching vision of A2K is of a treaty that asserts the human right to knowledge, and includes exceptions where there are IP rights.' (Thanks to Manon Anne Ress.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/19/2005 10:32:00 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.
