A group of scholarly publishers — Blackwell, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Sage, and Wiley — last week won a judgment against a Michigan copy shop for assisting students in copying course packs. The students were copying articles from scholarly journals and chapters from scholarly books for assigned readings in their college classes.
A student wanting a [...]
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Scholarly publishers shake down a copy shop
AcaWiki launches: free summaries of academic papers
As I reported at Open Access News, AcaWiki launched yesterday. The idea is free (gratis, libre), editable (wiki) summaries of academic papers. These summaries might be useful to scan during a literature review or when studying for a class, or they might help make an article comprehensible to a non-specialist (a researcher in another discipline, [...]
On jurisdiction; or, letting copyright trump science
Rep. John Conyers has released his response to the widely-circulated open letter by Lawrence Lessig and Michael Eisen criticizing Conyers’ anti-open access bill, H.R. 801. Eisen, Steven Harnad, and Peter Suber have already responded ably to Conyers’ response. There’s one thing I would add:
[Conyers:] My bill would restore longstanding federal copyright policy in this area. [...]
Liveblog: TACD IP: Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge
The next panel is on Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge.
First is Anne-Catherine Lorrain of Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue.
Interoperability should be a public principle.
ISP liability: Pressure for filtering solutions (consumer surveillance).
Government procurement should require open standards.
Richard Wilder of Microsoft.
(I’m not speaking on behalf of Microsoft.) IP online is important; we need more enforcement. This [...]
