On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Allen Kleiman wrote: > Apple computer has launched its iTunes product which, in my opinion, will > eliminate the cd industry and all who depend on it for a profitable > business. Furthermore, they have an audio books component that could do the > same thing to booksellers. This Steve Jobs is some kind of genius and this > issue has implications for open access.
[Note: The following reply by me was based on a misunderstanding on my part, as I did not yet know what iTunes was. I incorrectly assumed it was something like napster. In reality, it is merely a variant of pay-per-view -- one of the three forms of toll-barriers to access: subscriptions, site-licenses, and pay-per-view. I have accordingly redirected further postings on this topic from the "Napster" thread to "For Whom the Gate Tolls?" Apologies, SH] In brief: Consumer-theft technology has no connection with or implications for open access to the refereed research literature, which is an author give-away. It would be better for both causes to keep them as separate as possible. Please see the American Scientist Forum threads on this topic: "What About the Author Self-Archiving of Books?" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0450.html "Legal ways around copyright for one's own giveaway texts" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0541.html "Napster: stealing another's vs. giving away one's own" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0671.html "PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1309.html "On not conflating the give-away and non-give-away literature" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2003.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#9.1 http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#24.Napster Harnad, S., Varian, H. & Parks, R. (2000) Academic publishing in the online era: What Will Be For-Fee And What Will Be For-Free? Culture Machine 2 http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j002/Articles/art_harn.htm Stevan Harnad NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Posted discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org Dual Open-Access Strategy: BOAI-2: Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1: Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php