Carrollogos

There's a cottage industry of naysayers who seek attention by deriding all things Internet. A member of this crew, Mark Helprin, has pu...

If you, like me, work in an organization that has switched to Microsoft Office 2007, please be alert to two problems and their solutions. ...

Readers in Europe who care about keeping the Internet relatively neutral need to express that opinion to policymakers in the European Parlia...

The news that the Associated Press is going to rely increasingly on copyright and trademark law to staunch losses to its newsgathering busi...

On Wednesday, April 8, I gave an open access presentation at Columbia University, and I asked the question why the university as a whole was...

Congratulations are due to the American Physical Society and the Harvard University Office of Scholarly Communication for working out an und...

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...