Category Archives: Creative Commons

I’m on Rocketboom

…after a fashion. They use a photo of me around the one minute mark in today’s video, during a discussion of DRM. The photo’s from the DRM protests at the Students for Free Culture conference in Boston last year. I’m … Continue reading

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Author’s rights: let’s be clear on the problem

There are a number of available remedies (e.g. 1, 2, 3) to the problems posed by authors signing away their copyright to academic journals. But the thicket of solutions and the surrounding rhetoric can sometimes muddy up what the real … Continue reading

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Photo used in Music 2.0 book

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Public access is law at the NIH: What’s next?

On Dec. 26, President Bush signed HR 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, bringing into law a requirement for a mandatory public access policy for National Institutes of Health grantees. Peter Suber has (as usual!) been covering events at Open Access … Continue reading

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GFDL revision: Is there hope for CC interoperability?

I was reminded by the recent release of the new Affero GPL (very welcome news!) of the ongoing revision of another Free Software Foundation license, the GNU Free Documentation License (and its derivative, the Simpler FDL). The GFDL is the … Continue reading

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Scholarly societies and open access publishing

In the latest SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Peter Suber posts the results of research with Caroline Sutton on scholarly society publishers with open access journals. At its core is a list of open access journals affiliated with scholarly societies and … Continue reading

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Let’s all sue Creative Commons: a defense, and suggestions for publicity et al.

I get a bit defensive when I see my friends getting sued – perhaps a little bit due to my loathing for the seemingly inevitable day when I, too, get sued. So I was irked when I heard this week … Continue reading

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