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[Maria del Pilar Sáenz in Las 2 Orillas, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Hace más de un año un anuncio de la universidad de Harvard estremeció a la comunidad académica: la universidad no estaba dispuesta a seguir pagando los altos costos que implica el acceso a las publicaciones de las editoriales de mayor prestigio, como Elsevier, que piden […]
[Tim Vollmer. Reposted from Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY)] The public domain is the DNA of creativity. Whereby current copyright law requires permission in order to use a work, the public domain is a copyright-free zone whereby anyone can use the work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. One way works rise into the […]
Reposted from CC-USA for Copyright Week. Whatever one thinks about the rest of the Google Book business, I think it’s important to focus on the digitization of public domain books by both Google and the Open Content Alliance and to use these efforts as the basis for conceiving of the Digital Public Domain as a […]
[Internet Association, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The Internet Association appreciates Chairman Baucus and Ranking Member Hatch’s recognition that the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014 must address key trade issues in the marketplace. The Internet drives global trade and commerce and enables U.S. businesses of all kinds, from multinational corporations to small businesses, to reach global […]
[Unni Karunakara in PLoS, Link (CC-BY)] Open data and data sharing are essential for maximizing the benefits that can be obtained from institutional and research datasets [1]. In 2012, the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) decided to adopt a data sharing policy for routinely collected clinical and research data (http://www.msf.org.uk/msf-data-sharing). Here we describe […]
Contacts: Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law, 202-274-4157, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Margot Kaminski, Yale Law School, margot.kaminski@yale.edu David Levine, Elon University School of Law, 336-279-9298, dlevine3@elon.edu The release of a Trade Promotion Authority bill yesterday, including provisions to increase Congressional oversight of the trade negotiation process, is a welcome sign that Congress may be preparing […]
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