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I want to thank my colleagues in the legal academy who responded to the AAP's unfounded legal attack on the NIH Public Access Policy by ...

Having failed to stop the NIH Public Access Policy from becoming mandated by Congress, the American Association of Publishers reached for th...

Lobbyists for the trade organizations of large copyright-owning intermdiaries, such as the MPAA, RIAA and AAP, have become fond of pulling o...

I am behind on posting, and there's much news. Last month, Chairman Conyers (D-MI) introduced the " Fair Copyright in Research Work...

As seems to happen during every federal election campaign season, we're seeing a new round of controversies emerge as politicians seek t...

On September 9th, Mr. Conyers introduced H.R. 6845, " The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act ", into the House of Representative...

Yesterday, the Philadelphia police arrested Andre Moore, a 44-year-old security guard, because he posted a video shot by his 12-year-old son...

As Bill Patry reports , District Judge Michael Davis has asked for briefing on whether he must order a new trial in the best-known P2P copyr...

While we're on the subject of open access to law and legal scholarship, Richard Danner has written a very nice piece adapting the argu...

I'm late with this post because I had to grade exams in time for my graduating students to, well, graduate. Big congratulations to the f...

Science Commons and SPARC have teamed up on Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access To Their Work Th...

On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, I spoke at the launch of Creative Commons Ecuador , which was held in the context of a conference on measuring ...

The first copyright statute was adopted by the English Parliament for the "encouragement of learning." How well is copyright doin...

In the wake of the Supreme Court's Grokster opinion , legal scholars are analyzing when a business can be held secondarily liable for co...

I'm about to experiment with a new practice - the RFA (request for article). This is analogous to an RFC (request for comment) or RFP (...

The revised NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect on April 7, 2008, and universities, medical research institutions, and other grantees...

Prompted by differences of opinion about the Harvard FAS policy, I want to clarify where Stevan Harnad and I agree and disagree about the re...

Stevan Harnad is a forceful advocate for open access, and I agree with most of what he advocates. I do have a different view than he does a...

If it hasn't started yet, there's going to be grumbling soon enough when the reality of the NIH and the Harvard Faculty of Arts ...

Among universities in the United States, Harvard has just increased its competitive edge by adopting a faculty resolution to grant the unive...