Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
In the not-exactly-a-surprise category: China announced that, despite the IOC’s reassurances, it would filter the Internet connections available to journalists. What’s unavailable? The usual: sites criticizing China’s atrocious human rights record, or discussing Taiwan, or telling people how to get around China’s censorship. (See ONI’s complete report for the full list of what’s off-limits in [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access, international
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports another infuriating example of universities betraying their key role in the dissemination of knowledge and becoming just another greedy content provider. (The converse of this, I guess…)
Apparently some universities now cut deals with publishers to sponsor “custom” versions of textbooks and then require their students to purchase those special [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Media, Open Access, Scholarship
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m traveling to Baltimore tomorrow, where I’ll be speaking later this week at UMD, one of the few law schools that can claim to be older than my own. The occasion is this year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing, and I’ll be delivering an updated version of my talk on the open access movement.
As [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access, Peer Production
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
To its credit, the U.S. government has placed a tremendous quantity of legal information online. You can look up any patent ever issued at the USPTO’s web site and see either the full text (since 1976) or a scanned image (since 1790) of the issued patent. Pending legislation can be downloaded from THOMAS, [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’ve been sitting on this post for what seems like an eternity, but the news embargo has been lifted, and we’re all free to share the fantastic news from Harvard Law School, where the faculty voted unanimously to provide open access to faculty scholarship in an online repository. This makes Harvard the nation’s first [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Law School, Open Access, Scholarship
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Via Boing Boing comes a story about the State of Oregon asserting copyright over its official codification of state laws, the Oregon Revised Statutes. The state’s Office of Legislative Counsel has been sending out C&Ds to groups like Justia and public.resource.org, demanding that they take down their copies of the state laws. The groups are [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Open Access, Scholarship
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Via BoingBoing comes news of another big crop of United States Court of Appeals decisions being scanned and made publicly available by public.resource.org. They are scanning the entire Federal Reporter (First Series), which includes late-19th and early-20th century United States case law. Enormous PDFs (and even more enormous TIFFs) of the scanned volumes [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Open Access, Peer Production
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Ars Technica has reported that a chain reaction resulting from the death of Congressman Tom Lantos may mark a significant improvement in the line-up of chairmanships influential on Info/Law issues. (It may seem a bit ghoulish to speculate on the spoils right after the death of a great legislator like Lantos, a towering figure [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Open Access, Open Standards, Patents, RIAA, Trademarks, Voting
Posted on November 13th, 2007 by William McGeveran
The cycle is now complete. More proof that I was wrong. It was noteworthy when NBC and The New York Times and The Daily Show each made significant content available online for free, believing that advertising was a more profitable way to exploit online distribution than subscription fees or pay-per-view. Now it [...]
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Filed under: Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by William McGeveran
I wrote recently about the business-based decision of the New York Times to reverse course and tear down the paywall that had surrounded its archived content; old Times articles have gone online, searchable and free. Now a similar decision comes from another news source arguably as important to a certain audience: The Daily Show. [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access