Grant Gross reports for the IDG News Service that Rick Boucher proposed several amendments friendly to libraries and scholarship, but they were all defeated or withdrawn before the bill was adopted by the House Judiciary Committee. One of Boucher's amendments "would have prevented database owners from using the bill to protect legal materials produced by federal courts or any legislative materials. 'These are documents prepared for the public at the public's expense,' Boucher said." But committee chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) objected to this amendment and the Republican members fell in line and voted it down.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/19/2003 02:07:00 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.
