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The momentum for campus-wide action on open access is building. Tomorrow, I'll be speaking at American University Library's Digital...

I'm delighted to share the news that I'll be permanently joining the faculty at American University's Washington College of Law ...

This is a very good week for open access. Perhaps there is something in the water in Cambridge, Mass. because now the Kennedy School of Gov...

Big news at MIT. By unanimous faculty vote, MIT adopted the first University-wide OA mandate in the United States for faculty authors. The...

I'm going to have more to say about data, databases, and intellectual property rights in the coming months. This longish post provides ...

Periodically, I am asked to explain some feature of copyright law. When I do this in an email, I'm going to make it a practice of also ...

Very exciting news, as reported by Eric Steurer on the CC Blog: Eric Steuer, February 12th, 2009 YouTube just made an incre...

As Peter Suber reports , yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) re-introduced the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act . This year it's ...

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...