Keith Kupferschmid, Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled?Information Today, November 26, 2005. Keith Kupferschmid is VP for intellectual property policy and enforcement for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), a trade association that lobbied Congress to kill the open-access PubScience in 2002.
SIIA's official position on Google Library (from a sidebar in Kupferschmid's article) is that Google is "acting in direct contravention of well-established principles of copyright law," and that its "blatant disregard for copyright owners and copyright law makes the Google Print Library Project a large-scale commercial infringement of copyright, the likes of which have not been seen since Napster." Kupferschmid's article makes the case for the SIIA position.
(PS: If you're wondering why this is presented as journalism rather than an unpaid advertisement, the answer seems to be that the January issue will give equal time to the Google position.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/26/2005 10:10:00 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.
