Great list! Regarding the fourth point, I'd say that it would behoove
us to look into what kinds of electronic access the libraries use. For
instance, I know some schools where PDFs of important articles are
scanned and then hosted to anyone logged onto the campus network (or
additionally via VPN). Other schools are much more locked down,
mandating for instance proprietary eBook reading software. I've read a
lot, as I'm sure you all have, about public libraries having the
problem of satisfying the masses, meaning essentially that because
people aren't clamoring for open access, they're not going to get it.
Fred Benenson wrote:
The only reason I'm currently "attributing" it to FC @ NYU
is because I've brought up the hit list idea many many times on this
list before and while people sounded excited, it didn't really get
anywhere.
However, at a recent FC @ NYU meeting I had many people agree to put in
a couple hours to get the project done over the next semester or so, so
I figured we'd just take the reigns and go from there.
So I'm not in this for the attribution -- I just want to get it done,
and now that there's renewed interest on the national level, I'm happy
to head it up. I'm going to create a wiki entry on the FreeCulture.org
wiki (FC @ NYU wiki's spam / content ratio was debilitating high so
it's dead now) soon and post the link here.
The big things we want to get clear about are:
1) Student copyright policy
What rights do students have to their work? Moreover, are they
allowed to freely license it?
2) p2p filesharing policy
How willing is the university to play ball with RIAA's extortionist
tactics? Do they readily give up student information, or ban the
student from the network? 3 strikes? 1 strike? Do they offer services
to students who are sued? What is the party line about the copious
amounts of file sharing that is obviously going on on their campuses?
3) Privacy / Free Speech stuff
Is running Tor legal? Can you protest easily?
4) Open Access
How receptive are the librarians / academics to open access
publishing? This is a hard thing to quantify, but perhaps you guys have
some better ideas.
Ok, will get this up soon.
F
On 10/1/07, Conor Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Interesting: such a move
would shift the focus of the citation aspect
of most free licenses away from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and more onto FC.org in general,
no? I'm neither disapproving of this myself, nor implying that Fred
might do so... I just find it an intriguing issue, given the content of
this listserv!
Of course it could be hosted on FC.org and still credited to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
but wikiship means authorship would be a tricky business.
Just enjoying the game, my friends....
Asheesh Laroia wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Fred Benenson wrote:
Indeed, but couching it with enough context is what makes an even bigger
splash.
It's also a matter of timing on our side -- we have a lot of events this
semester so we have to use our time wisely together.
We'll probably be picking universities in the next week or two ...
In the time before it's "released", I urge you to work on it in some
collaborative medium like a wiki. I would think it's okay if that work
happens in public, since you can "publish" a version independent of the
wiki and call that the first published version.
-- Asheesh.
--
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