Annalee Newitz, Some Rights Reserved, San Francisco Bay Guardian (February 25, 2004). A news article points out benefits of alternative copyright arrangements such as those offered by Creative Commons. The success of Cory Doctorow's novels is given as an example, as well as comments from sympathetic publishers such as the University of California Press. Newitz includes some background from recent publishing history and illustrates parallels with the Free Software Foundation. The Public Library of Science's CC licenses are noted. While Newitz's report generally lauds the "some rights reserved" model, some opposing viewpoints are presented, expressing confusion about how revenue would be sustained, or just stating comfort with traditional copyright models and permissions. (Source: Creative Commons: weblog)
Posted by
Garrett at 3/03/2004 06:12:00 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.
