Coalition for Networked Information
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EPIC 2014. 8 minute Flash animation by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson.
What will the information world be like in the year 2014? This highly polished, thoughtful piece gives us one compelling possibility. Highly recommended. People will be talking about this.
transcript available.
In the year 2014 people have access to a breadth and depth of information unimaginable in an earlier age.
Way to go! Copyright must be changed one writer/creator at a time. And adding Lessig’s voice (not to mention stature) to this cause will shake the copyright tower to the core. Don’t forget to read the comments. Quite a good conversation going on there.
Never again. It has taken me too long to resolve myself about this, and it was too late in the process of this article to insist on something different. But from this moment on, I am committed to the Open Access pledge:
I will not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not permit me the freedoms of at least a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
This is, of course, much less than RMS insists upon. My views are more confused than his. I am not yet convinced of this point w/r/t books. I am not yet convinced w/r/t eliminating the non-commercial restriction. But, still, there is no academic or scholarship related reason why the publishing of academic works today should require more of me than this. And to the extent academic publishing demands more of me than this, I will not support it.
Public Knowledge - Why These Issues Matter
Public Knowledge is April’s BOTM, and this isn’t an April fool’s joke. PK aims to make sure copyright and intellectual property law work to further scientific research and development, artistic creativity, technological advancement, civic discourse and free speech. Find out more about what they do, what issues they work on and, most importantly, take action and stay informed! PK definitely wears a white hat!!