Adi informs me that my question is answered in the last paragraph of the piece listed. TL;DR: they were already planning on it, but may have sped things up in response to the event (to assert that they're cool with the public domain, despite any confusion the incident may have caused).
Interesting! On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]> wrote: > So great to hear! > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This is really really awesome news. >> >> -Adi >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Parker Phinney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Wooooo!!!! >>> >>> Anyone know if this has anything to do with our pal Aaron Swartz? >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Kat Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor%E2%80%93free-access-early-journal-content >>> > >>> > "I am writing to share exciting news: today, we are making journal >>> > content on JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and >>> > prior to 1870 elsewhere, freely available to the public for reading >>> > and downloading. This includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than >>> > 200 journals, representing approximately 6% of the total content on >>> > JSTOR. [...]" >>> > >>> > -Kat >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en >>> > Wikimedia, Press: [email protected] * Personal: [email protected] >>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:mindspillage >>> > IRC(freenode,OFTC):mindspillage * identi.ca:mindspillage * phone:ask >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Discuss mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.madebyparker.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- http://www.madebyparker.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
