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Friday, May 19, 2006

German bill supports OA

Klaus Graf, Bundesrat für wissenschaftsfreundlicheres Urheberrecht, Archivalia, May 15, 2006. Klaus quotes key excerpts from a new bill (Entwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Regelung des Urheberrechts in der Informationsgesellschaft) before the upper house of Germany's Bundesrat that would make Germany copyright law more science-friendly.

Three sections of the bill support OA in different ways. I'd like to summarize them without misleading anyone, but my German and Google's English aren't good enough for that. If anyone can translate the key sections or point to English translations online, I'd gladly blog them.