Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Should Copyright Be Abolished On Academic Work?
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> | We've discussed a few times over the years how copyright gets in the way
> | of academic work. Journals (who get all of their writing and reviewing
> | totally for free) insist on holding the copyright for those works in
> | many cases. I've even heard of academics who had to redo pretty much the
> | identical experiment because they couldn't even cite their own earlier
> | results for fear of a copyright claim.
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> http://techdirt.com/articles/20090724/0445155649.shtml
If its publicly funded, then they have no rights over that research
and development and the reports they write with public money.
> "Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished?"
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> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5505
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> Protecting the public domain and sharing our cultural heritage
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> | Last week, the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK sent a
> | threatening letter to a Wikimedia volunteer regarding the upload of
> | public domain paintings to Wikimedia?s media repository, Wikimedia
> | Commons.
> |
> | The fact that a publicly funded institution sent a threatening letter to
> | a volunteer working to improve a non-profit encyclopedia may strike you
> | as odd. After all, the National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856,
> | with the stated aim of using portraits ?to promote appreciation and
> | understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British
> | history and culture.? [source] It seems obvious that a public benefit
> | organization and a volunteer community promoting free access to
> | education and culture should be allies rather than adversaries.
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> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/16
protecting-the-public-domain-and-sharing-our-cultural-heritage/
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> Recent:
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> Copyright Lobbyists Celebrate Latest Bogus Stats With Willing Gov't
> Officials
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> | They don't actually look at the real research on these things. Instead,
> | they accept as gospel the ridiculous debunked research that comes out of
> | the industry lobbyists who benefit the most from such protectionism that
> | limits real and meaningful competition. And no one calls them on it.
> | Take, for example, this Internet News report on how lobbyists for the
> | music, movie and software industries all got together with Commerce
> | Secretary Gary Locke, and talked up a new and misleading study from the
> | International Intellectual Property Association that talks up the
> | importance of copyright.
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> http://techdirt.com/articles/20090721/0421575608.shtml
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> Copyright debate heats up over Obama appointments
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> | The president has, in fact, filled out some high-level Justice
> | Department positions with lawyers favored by the copyright industry,
> | including attorneys who have represented the Recording Industry
> | Association of America and the Business Software Alliance. The
> | signatories of the April 2 letter said the Justice Department's
> | intervention last month in favor of a record label in a file-sharing
> | case heightens their concern.
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> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10223549-38.html
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> Biden promises 'right person' as new U.S. copyright czar
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> | "It's pure theft, stolen from the artists and quite frankly from the
> | American people as consequence of loss of jobs and as a consequence of
> | loss of income," Biden said, according to a White House pool report.
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> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10224689-38.html
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