More on piracy from the public domain....A new bill before the Canadian Parliament would give a 20 year retroactive copyright term extension to a certain category of posthumously published work. The bill may be named the Lucy Maud Montgomery Copyright Term Extension Act, because Montgomery's unpublished diaries are among the works to be affected by the bill. (Montgomery is the author of the Ann of Green Gables novels.) A draft of the bill was open for public comment until March 7 of this year. (Thanks to BNA's Internet Law News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/09/2003 01:56:00 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.
