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Culture wants to be free
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| Lessig's other possible solution is copyright reform. He proposes a sort of
| return to the old system. He suggests that while copyright protection should
| still be granted automatically, the term should be 50 years with the
| possibility of renewal for a nominal fee. Under this system, when a work is
| renewed, it is added to a central registry so that people can be sure whether
| it is still copyrighted or in the public domain.
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http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/06/12/culture-wants-to-be-free/
"Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be
shared will be shared: get used to it."
--Eben Moglen
Last week:
BG: 'Government's increasing use of Open Source inevitable'
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| The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software,
| predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the
| city of Rousse, the country's fifth-largest city.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7662/469%20
Recent:
Information Liberation
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| Other than in the realm of life-saving medicine, why should any of this
| matter to nonacademics? Well, for one thing, barriers to the spread of
| information are bad for capitalism. The dissemination of knowledge is almost
| as crucial as the production of it for the creation of wealth, and knowledge
| (like people) can't reproduce in isolation. It's easy to scoff at the rise of
| Madonna studies and other risible academic excrescences, but a flood of truly
| important research pours from campuses every day. The infrastructure that
| produces this work is surely one of America's greatest competitive
| advantages.
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| In fact, open access might help to moderate some of the worst forms of
| academic hokum, if only by holding them up to the light of day -- and perhaps
| by making taxpayers, parents and college donors more careful about where they
| send their money. Entering the realm of delirium for a moment, one can even
| imagine public exposure encouraging professors in the humanities and social
| sciences to write in plain English.
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| Keeping knowledge bottled up is also bad for the world's poor; indeed,
| opening up the research produced on America's campuses via the Internet is
| probably among the most cost-effective ways of helping underdeveloped
| countries rise from poverty. Closer to home, open access to scholarly work
| via the Internet would help counteract the plague of plagiarism that the
| Internet itself has abetted. Anyone suspecting a scholar of such chicanery
| could search for a phrase or two in Google and see if somebody else's work
| turns up with the same unusual text string.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120486540450119149.html
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