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Open Source Under The Lens Of An Intellectual Property Lawyer

Jen Wike | opensource.com | September 12, 2013

Have you ever wondered what, from a business perspective, the world of sharing, free, and open source looks like to a lawyer? Challenging! Chaotic? Creative... Read More »

A Simple Definition For Open Access: A Proposal To Open The Discussion

Heather Morrison | The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics | January 8, 2013

This post proposes a shift from the detailed BBB definition of open access to Peter Suber's brief definition, as follows: Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (from Suber's Open Access Overview). Read More »

Aaron Swartz's Work, Computer Crime Law, And "The Internet's Own Boy"

April Glaser | Electronic Frontier Foundation | August 27, 2014

It’s been more than a year since Aaron Swartz’s tragic death, and now Aaron’s life is the subject of a new documentary, The Internet’s Own Boy, directed by Brian Knappenberger. The documentary has received much acclaim and deservedly so...

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Award Winning Open Access Academic Publisher PeerJ Raises Series A Investment From SAGE And O'Reilly

Press Release | PeerJ, SAGE | July 9, 2014

Academic publisher SAGE and PeerJ Inc., publisher of the Open Access journal PeerJ and pre-print server PeerJ PrePrints, are pleased to announce that SAGE has led a new investment as part of a second round of funding for PeerJ...

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Data miners strike gold on copyright

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | August 22, 2013

In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes. Read More »

Death Of A Hacktivist

Patricia Aufderheide | In These Times | May 19, 2014

Aaron Swartz was an Internet prodigy and a trouble-maker. The new documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is not only about Swartz, but about why we should care about the issues he cared about, and the trouble that triggered his suicide...

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Frances Pinter On Knowledge Unlatched And The Evolution Of The Industry

Anne-Marie Green | Wiley | July 1, 2014

We recently spoke with Frances Pinter, founder of Knowledge Unlatched, a non-profit enabling sustainable Open Access book publishing. She is also the CEO of Manchester University Press...

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Freedom For Scholarship In The Internet Age

Heather Morrison | The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics | December 13, 2012

Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. [...] Read More »

Happy Public Domain Day

Copyright is a time-limited, Government-awarded monopoly, given to individuals as an incentive for the creation of works of art, and their eventual dedication to the Public Domain. [...] Read More »

How the University of Hawai'i Is Solving Today's Higher Ed Problems

Openness invites greater participation and it takes advantage of the shared energy of collaborators. The strength of openly created educational resources comes paradoxically from the vulnerability of the shared experience of that creation process. One of the leaders in Open Educational Resources (OER) is Billy Meinke, educational technologist at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The University's open creation model uses Pressbooks, which Billy tells me more about in this interview...

Indian Govt Looks To Provide Free Access To Publicly-Funded Research Works

Riddhi Mukherjee | MEDIANAMA | July 23, 2014

Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), under the Ministry of Science and Technology recently released (pdf) the draft of what is termed as Open Access Policy and has invited comments from the public until July 25, reports The Times of India. Comments can be submitted to [email protected]...

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LittleBits' Ayah Bdeir: Making Hardware As Hackable As Code

Lauren Orsini | ReadWrite | March 25, 2014

Long before she became the CEO of a tech company, Ayah Bdeir was an electronic artist whose installations shared messages about Arab identity. "Random Search" is an undergarment that records and shares the experience of an airport patdown. "Les Années Lumière," or "The Years of Light," visualizes three years of explosions in Lebanon with blinking LED lights on a map.

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Mark Johnson Of OSS Watch Opens Up About The Challenges Of Open Source Procurement

Jen Wike | OpenSource.com | June 2, 2014

The OSS Watch blog has been on our radar for a while now as a great resource for open source commentary. We've looked to their team, including development manager Mark Johnson, for thought leadership on how open source software is being used and to gauge the pulse of the open source movement...

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Open Access Advocates Protest The FIRST Act

Sal Robinson | Melville House | November 18, 2013

When, in February 2013, the White House issued a directive stating that all larger federal agencies (agencies that spent over $100 million R&D annually) should make the results of any federally funded research available to the public within a year of publication, Open Access advocates cheered. [...] However, a new bill [...] now threatens to reverse the progress made earlier in the year. Read More »

Open Access Maps At NYPL

Matt Knutzen | New York Public Library | March 28, 2014

The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright restrictions.

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