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âShrinking the Commonsâ: Today, Linux is open-source. Tomorrow, â?
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| In the paper, I take a couple of stabs at creatively reinterpreting existing
| copyright law to fix the problem, before ultimately throwing up my hands and
| kicking it over to Congress. Iâll post the abstract of the paper after the
| jump.
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/08/27/shrinking-the-commons/
Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB
Format
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| Over the years, we've heard a lot from people who've unearthed hidden
| treasures in Google Books: a crafter who uncovered a forgotten knitting
| technique, a family historian who discovered her ancestor once traveled the
| country with a dancing, roller-skating bear. The books they found were out of
| copyright and in the public domain, which meant they could read the full text
| and even download a PDF version of the book.
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http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/08/download-over-million-public-domain.html
Sony Sides With Google in âLibrary of Futureâ Settlement
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| In the battle to win readers for the books of the future, Sony has sided with
| Google over a controversial, proposed copyright lawsuit settlement that lets
| Google build out the library and bookstore of the future.
|
| That pits Sony and Google against Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon, all of which
| have allied in opposition to the settlement. (See Wired.comâs Google Book
| Search FAQ to learn more.)
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/sony-google-book/
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
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| It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the
| Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a
| school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like
| in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never
| construct a paragraph again.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
A few notes about openness (and a request)
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| For example, the âopenâ in open source is not nuanced at all and has been
| artificially binary-ized. The open source definition tells us very clearly
| what a license must and must not do in order to be permitted to describe
| itself with the trademarked term âopen source.â In the eyes of the defenders
| of the âopen sourceâ brand, if youâre not open enough youâre not open at all.
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http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1059
Recent:
Reed Elsevier: Announces higher journal price increases than expected, BNP
Paribas: Open Access is putting pressure on pricing
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| For another illustration of the growing impact of hybrid open access programs
| on online journals prices, this time at Oxford University Press, cf. my
| newest posting to liblicense-l and lis-e-resources, Disturbing spread of
| dyscalculia in recent publisher price lists and announcements (Aug 7, 2008)
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http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5867474/
The Canadian Governmentâs War on Science
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| During the Bush era the Canadian war on science was an embarrassing side show
| to that of its more wildly offensive southern neighbour which regularly
| silenced scientists, withheld reports, or simply appointed "expert" panels
| whose credentials were dubious but whose members could be counted on to
| produce the "right" answer. Indeed, these sad events are well chronicled in
| Politics And Science In The Bush Administration drafted for Representative
| Henry Waxman. (This, as an aside, is what happens when you give elected
| representatives real research budgets - they look into all sorts of issues to
| keep the government of the day honest. A similar study by a Canadian MP would
| have stretched their resources beyond their limit).
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http://eaves.ca/2009/08/10/the-canadian-governments-war-on-science/
Knowledge Exchange comparative report on Costs and Benefits of Open Access
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| In June 2009 a study was completed that had been commissioned by Knowledge
| Exchange and written by Professor John Houghton, Victoria University,
| Australia. This report on the study was titled: "Open Access â What are the
| economic benefits?
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http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316
Do We Need Open Access Journals?
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| On the one hand, it would be ironic if the very field that acted as a midwife
| to open access journals should also be the one that begins to undermine it
| through a move to repository-based open publishing of preprints. On the
| other, it doesn't really matter; what's important is open access to the
| papers. If these are in preprint form, or appear as fully-fledged articles in
| peer-reviewed open access journals is a detail, for the users at least; it's
| more of a challenge for publishers, of course...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/do-we-need-open-access-journals.html
The Doctor Who Model of Open Source
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| How do we sustain Open Source in a distributed world? We are facing this
| challenge with several of our chemical software creations/packages. People
| move, institutions change. Open Source does not, of itself, grow and
| flourish â it needs nurturing. Many packages require a lot of work before
| they are in a state to be usefully enhanced by the community - âthrow it over
| the wall and it will flourishâ does not work.
|
| Many OS projects have clear governance and (at least implicitly) funded
| management. Examples are Apache, Eclipse, etc. Many others have the âBDFLâ -
| Benevolent Dictator For Life with characters such as RBS, Linus, Guido
| Python, Larry Perl, etc. These command worldwide respect and they have income
| models which are similar to literary giants. These models donât (yet?) work
| for chemistry.
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http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2059
UNESCO releases new publication on open educational resources
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| UNESCO has released its first openly licensed publication. Open Educational
| Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace brings together the background papers
| and reports from the first three years of activities in the UNESCO OER
| Community. Access the online edition â or buy the book!
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http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28899&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Why Scientific Publishing Will Never be the Same
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| For those of us tracking open access and its wider import, it's pretty clear
| that scientific publishing has changed for ever. But for some within the
| industry, there remains the desperate hope that all this new-fangled open,
| collaborative stuff will just blow over.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-scientific-publishing-will-never-be.html
It's Our Data: Time to Open Up
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| Last week I wrote about David Cameron's fine words about cancelling ID cards
| and generally opening up data. It was full of sound and fury, but I reserve
| judgement on just how much it really signified.
|
| But here's a hopeful sign that things really might change if the Tories win
| power at the next general election. It's a new report from the Centre for
| Policy Studies
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2312
Open Access and the A-Bomb
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| Importantly, by putting their papers into arXiv physicists ensure that they
| are freely available to anyone who wishes to access them â assuming they have
| an Internet connection â regardless of whether they or their institution has
| a subscription to the journal in which the paper is published. Indeed, some
| papers in arXiv are never published in a journal at all.
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http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-access-and-a-bomb.html
Book Publisher Eksmo Acquires Online Ebook Store LitRes
http://blog.quintura.com/2009/06/22/book-publisher-eksmo-acquires-online-ebook-store-litres/?owa_from=feed&owa_sid=
Article: Itâs our data
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| The 700,000 pages of scanned images put online in pdf were described by Sir
| Stuart Bell as a âgreat achievementâ for Parliament. And I suppose it is if
| youâre used to inscribing your words on animal skins.
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http://www.yrtk.org/2009/article-its-our-data/
Five minutes of your time to help us: take part in UK PubMed Central images
survey
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| The British Library project team, which manages development activities for
| UKPMC, and is specifically tasked with identifying additional, hard to find
| content to add to UKPMC, is keen to understand what types of images
| researchers would find useful for potential inclusion in the repository.
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http://ukpmc.blogspot.com/2009/06/five-minutes-of-your-time-to-help-us.html
Finding a fair price for free knowledge
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| TEN years ago, a piece of software called Napster taught us that scarcity is
| no longer a law of nature. The physics of our universe would allow everyone
| with access to a networked computer to enjoy, for free, every song, every
| film, every book, every piece of research, every computer program, every last
| thing that could be made out of digital ones and zeros. The question became
| not, will nature allow it, but will our legal and economic system ever allow
| it?
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227141.000-finding-a-fair-price-for-free-knowledge.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech
No Raw Data on Recovery.gov. Significant Failure
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| Speaking for the coalition, Gary Bass, OMB Watchâs director and CARâs
| co-chair, applauded the significant transparency steps OMB has taken in
| certain key respects. However, much data from the recipients of Recovery Act
| funds will not be collected or disclosed according the the new guidelines.
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http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/06/25/no-raw-data-on-recoverygov-significant-failure/
ScenicOrNot raw data now available for re-use
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| Itâs available under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3
| Licence, and we greatly look forward to seeing what people do with it.
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http://www.mysociety.org/2009/06/26/scenicornot-raw-data-now-available-for-re-use/
Elsevier Does a Microsoft with Open Access
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| I've seen these kind of stories so many times in the world of open source,
| with Microsoft as the main protagonist, that they warm the cockles of my
| heart when I see them popping up in other areas like open access. Why?
| Because if a multi-billion pound company like Elsevier is starting to stoop
| to this kind of tactic, it demonstrates just how profoundly worried it is -
| and how close open access is to widespread acceptance.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/elsevier-does-microsoft-with-open.html
Related:
Elsevier steals, then copyrights other people's free stuff
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| Reed Elsevier caught copying my content without my permission:
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| Â Â I was not asked for, and did not give, permission for my work to appear
| Â Â on that page, much less in that format. Needless to say, I felt a little
| Â Â slighted.
|
| Â Â The website in question appears to be a custom version of the LexisNexis
| Â Â search engine. This particular version appears to be Elsevier's own
| Â Â custom version, intended for internal use. I don't have conclusive proof
| Â Â of that, but the title bar at the top of the page reads, "Elsevier
| Â Â Corporate", and the person who accessed my blog from that page had an IP
| Â Â address that's registered to MD Consult, which is an Elsevier subsidiary.
| Â Â My guess is that Elsevier's keeping track of news articles and blog posts
| Â Â that mention them, along with the context in which they're mentioned.
|
| [...]
|
| Reed Elsevier Is Stealing My Words:
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| Â Â I received an email from ScienceBlogling Mike Dunford that Reed Elsevier
| Â Â had excerpted one of my posts. No problem there--I like it when people
| Â Â read my stuff....except for one thing:
|
| Â Â The fuckers copyrighted my words.
|
| Copyright violation?:
|
| Â Â Apparently, publishing companies don't always get permission for the
| Â Â materials they use, either. Mike Dunford caught Reed Elsevier copying his
| Â Â content without permission (from Stephen Downes).
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http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/08/elsevier_steals_then_copyright.php
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