Mindy Fetterman has a long story in today's USA Today on Bikram's notorious copyright on yoga moves and the Indian government's attempt, through the huge OA Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, to remove copyright and patent barriers from traditional Indian knowledge.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/29/2006 01:12:00 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.
