Canada's Ministers of Industry and Canadian Heritage are conducting a consultation on copyright reform, soliciting comments until September 13. Of particular interest to OAN are comments calling for an "open" copyright system or an end to Crown copyright. See Michael Geist's tallies of the submissions so far (1, 2, 3). For examples, see comments by the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities ("more practical access to orphan works ... [e]liminate Crown copyright") or by the Green Party of Canada ("Crown copyright and public domain must be reformed to build a healthy information commons").
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 8/18/2009 10:53:00 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.
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.
