Last week Jamie Boyle argued that copyright law is so backward that banal developments, like letting policy be informed by empirical evidence, count as progress.
Here's an example from the world of access. Proctor & Gamble is making news for the progressive idea of guaranteeing its researchers access to their own data.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/01/2006 03:40:00 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.
