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The NIH mandate is succeeding. Shouldn't all federally funded researchers who produce research articles with federal support have to de...

The first thing a student learns in a microeconomics class is that " There ain't no such thing as a free lunch ." This lesson ...

There's a lot of debate about whether allowing or encouraging price discrimination - charging different people or classes of people a di...

Yes. Nine Inch Nail's Ghosts I-IV was released under a CC license and was the best selling album in 2008 on Amazon's MP3 store. As F...

While participating in a conference at Vanderbilt Law School on "user generated content," the following thought occurred in the c...

Whatever one thinks about the rest of the Google Book business, I think it's important to focus on the digitization of public domain boo...

Jesse Dylan, who directed the Emmy Award-winning " Yes We Can " Barack Obama campaign video in collaboration with rapper will.i.am...

Creative Commons is asking for your support this year to enable us to continue the work we've been doing in promoting openness in the cu...

The Obama-Biden transition team has adopted the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license for the content on its web site, http://change.gov/...

CALL FOR PAPERS IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections 6th Annual Symposium April 24, 2009 Special Theme: Female Fan Cultures and Intellectual...

If private funders of scientific and scholarly research want to maximize the impact of their investments, they should condition their fundin...

So, my family recently lost a friend, Jillian Raye . I'd keep my remorse to myself, but Jillian had a special relationship with William...

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...