There's a great opportunity for us to get involved in activism against this bill, especially involving chapters. Ideas for how we can best do this?
I know Change Congress is looking to target it as well. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/16/scientific-publisher.html > > "Steve sez, "Currently, the National Institutes of Health require > NIH-funded research to be published in open-access repositories. In a > cop to for-profit science publishers, Congressional Representative > John Conyers (D-MI) has re-introduced a bill (HR801) that essentially > would negate the NIH policy concerning depositing research in OA > repositories. The bill goes further than prohibiting open access > requirements, however, as the bill also prohibits government agencies > from obtaining a license to publicly distribute, perform, or display > such work by, for example, placing it on the Internet, and would > repeal the longstanding 'federal purpose' doctrine, under which all > federal agencies that fund the creation of a copyrighted work reserve > the 'royalty-free, nonexclusive right to reproduce, publish, or > otherwise use the work' for any federal purpose. The bill is bad > news." " > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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