I understand copyright owner’s need for maintaining control of their works and their belief they should have the right to require prior consent — to opt-in as it were — for projects such as Google Print that use these works. I also think the law will back them up. But I think you and I will be the poorer for it and we, as a society, will end up losing works whose copyright owners can't be found to authorize inclusion in such a project, or can't be bothered to.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/03/2005 10:03:00 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.
