Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 507.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (77)
Subject: Advance Praise for Lessig's "Creative Commons"
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (24)
Subject: Budapest Open Access Initiative: Endorsed by ARL
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:36:24 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Advance Praise for Lessig's "Creative Commons"
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
February 14, 2002
Advance Praise for Lessig's "Creative Commons"
http://www.creativecommons.org/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL
Below is the opening of a substantial article by San Francisco Chronicle
reporter Hal Plotkin on Lawrence Lessig's plans for the "Creative Commons,"
which should be formally announced in the next few weeks.
The complete article may be read at the www.sfgate.com URL above.
David Green
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>>Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection
>To: "David Green" <david@ninch.org>
>Organization: SF Gate, San Francisco, CA
>Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:18 -0800
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>This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SF Gate.
>The original article can be found on SFGate.com here:
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL
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>Monday, February 11, 2002 (SF Gate)
>All Hail Creative Commons/Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig
>plans a legal insurrection
>Hal Plotkin, Special to SF Gate
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>Stanford law professor and author Lawrence Lessig and a small band of
>collaborators at MIT, Duke, Harvard and Villanova are about to embark on a
>new endeavor that could help reignite the global high-tech economy.
>
>A prolific thinker, writer and doer, and a national authority on
>intellectual-property law and a former columnist at The Industry Standard,
>Lessig is perhaps best known as the author of two of the most important
>books yet produced about computers, the Internet and how our legal system
>deals with them: "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace," and his more recent
>work, "The Future of Ideas."
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>In an interview last week, Lessig confirmed the basic details about his
>latest venture, Creative Commons, which is slated to be formally unveiled
>in a few months.
>
>In a boon to the arts and the software industry, Creative Commons will
>make available flexible, customizable intellectual-property licenses that
>artists, writers, programmers and others can obtain free of charge to
>legally define what constitutes acceptable uses of their work. The new
>forms of licenses will provide an alternative to traditional copyrights by
>establishing a useful middle ground between full copyright control and the
>unprotected public domain.
>
>The first set of licensing options Creative Commons plans to make
>available are designed mostly for people looking for some protections as
>they move their wares into the public domain. Those protections might
>include requirements that the work not be altered, employed for commercial
>purposes or used without proper attribution......
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>Copyright 2002 SF Gate
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--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:37:22 +0000 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: Budapest Open Access Initiative: Endorsed by ARL
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 14, 2002
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Endorses Budapest Open Access Initiative <http://www.arl.org/scomm/boai.html> <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/>
In an interesting coincidental posting with the advance notice of the "Creative Commons," designed to offer free licenses outlining acceptable use of material in a newly-defined middle ground between full copyright control and the unprotected public domain, see this endorsement of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) agreement designed to make donated research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. ARL is one of 354 individuals and 33 organizations to have so far signed on to the initiative.
The BOAI web site, encouraging further signatories, states that "For an individual, signing indicates a commitment to open access for one's own research (by self-archiving what one publishes in toll-based journals and/or by publishing in open-access-journals). For an institution, signing means a commitment to open access by supporting institutional self-archiving and/or open-access-journals."
David Green ===========
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