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Public Domain Manifesto
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| The Public Domain is the rule, copyright
| protection is the exception. Since
| copyright protection is granted only with
| respect to original forms of expression,
| the vast majority of data, information and
| ideas produced worldwide at any given time
| belongs to the Public Domain. In addition
| to information that is not eligible for
| protection, the Public Domain is enlarged
| every year by works whose term of
| protection expires. The combined
| application of the requirements for
| protection and the limited duration of the
| copyright protection contribute to the
| wealth of the Public Domain so as to ensure
| access to our shared culture and knowledge.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/26/public-domain-manife.html
The Public Domain Manifesto
http://publicdomainmanifesto.org/node/8
Improving Access to Research
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| Last week, the U.S. House Science and
| Technology Committee's Roundtable on
| Scholarly Publishing (on which we served
| along with 10 others) released a report*
| arguing that journal articles derived from
| federal research funding should be made
| publicly available as quickly as
| practicableâgenerally in a year or less
| after publicationâand in ways that will
| improve scholarship by maximizing the scope
| for interoperability across articles, among
| disciplines, and internationally.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/327/5964/393
Librarians for Fair Access resists exclusive content contracts
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| Library database vendor EBSCO now has
| exclusive deals with content providers --
| Time, Inc., and Forbes. Libraries who had
| been getting access to this same content
| through other vendors will have to pay up
| or lose electronic access to popular titles
| such as Sports Illustrated, Time and
| People. Gale, a competing vendor, has
| responded with their Fair Access campaign
| including the Librarians for Fair Access
| facebook group.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/25/librarians-for-fair-access.html
Recent:
Public Domain Day: January 1, 2010
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| Public Domain Day. January 1st every year. If
| you live in Europe, January 1st 2010 would be
| the day when the works of Freud and Yeats and
| hundreds of other authors ranging from
| Havelock Ellis to Zane Grey emerge into the
| public domain â where they are freely
| available for anyone to use, republish,
| translate or transform. You could copy the
| songs and photos, share the movies, make a
| digital library of the books. Your school
| could create an interactive volume of Yeatsâs
| poems, or publish that cheap educational
| edition of Freud's Civilization and its
| Discontents. You could translate Ellis into
| French, even make a new film based on Greyâs
| classic Westerns. Or you could just send a
| copy to a friend â without asking permission
| or violating the law.
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http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday
60,000 books from Library of Congress go online
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| Almost 60,000 are available now and more are
| scanned every day. These books are in the
| public domain and come with no restrictions on
| their use. Feel free to harvest, index,
| investigate, and re-use.
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http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=283352
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