Yesterday the Alliance for Digital Progress was launched by a wide consortium of tech companies, including Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Apple. The alliance is specifically designed to oppose Fritz Hollings' CBDTPA, which has not yet been reintroduced in the new session of Congress, or to gather tech muscle and money to neutralize Hollywood muscle and money on technology and copyright issues. (However, its online statements suggest that it's more interested in keeping government out of the solution than assuring a solution maximallly friendly to consumers and digital freedom.) The ADP website contains a good deal of research and a web form for sending a message to one's Congressional delegation. More coverage.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/24/2003 02:38:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
