PIJIP’s Peter Jaszi and the Center for Social Media’s Pat Aufderheide, co-facilitated by UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Urban and Poetry Foundation’s Kate Coles, have just released a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry (PDF). The code is a…
Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski, editors. Complete Text: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property. Contributors: Ahmed Abdel Latif, Philippe Aigrain, Jeffrey Atteberry, Yochai Benkler, Yann Moulier Boutaing, Carlos Correa, Laura DeNardis, Sarah Deutsch, Peter Drahos, Hala Essalmawi,…
Large publishers are starting to pull out of the Health InterNetwork for Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), a system for providing free journals to low income countries established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001. Elsevier, Lippincott Williams &…
The Brazilian Ministry of Culture has removed the logo of the Creative Commons license from its website. Since Gilberto Gil was ahead of the Ministry (2003-2008), all the content of the website has been licensed in Creative Commons.
A public letter from activists, academics and artists to the recently appointed Brazilian Minister of Culture, Ana de Hollanda, is currently requesting the continuation of the copyright reform and is open for worldwide signatures.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to announce the release of Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Libraries, a report that summarizes research into the current application of fair use and other copyright exemptions to meet the…
John Timmer has a new story in Ars Technica on “Scitable:” “Scitable aims to provide online, open access educational materials in the sciences. Anyone can browse the content or follow predefined courses, currently limited to the life sciences. But one…
In her blog, the “Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics,” Heather Morrison reports that the Directory of Open Access Journals now has 5,864 titles, up from under 2,000 in December of 2005. Full story: