Rainer Kuhlen and Jochen Brüning, Creative Commons (CC) – für informationelle Selbstbestimmung, gegen den Trend des Urheberrechts/Copyright als Handelsrecht; oder: Chancen für einen innovativen Drei-Stufen-Test? A preprint. In German but with this English-language abstract: 'Creative commons (CC), together with the Open access and the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) initiatives, has in a very short time become a signal that there are alternatives to the dominant commercialization of knowledge and information and to the exploitation of authors of creative work. More systematically formulated: CC aims at reversing the world-wide trend of understanding copyright (including the European legal tradition of authors rights) primarily as a trade law. CC's objective is to rebind the rights on intellectual works to the authors not to the content industry. CC is thus an important contribution for saving authors' information autonomy.' (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/06/2005 07:47:00 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.
