On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, [identity removed] wrote:
>sh> Currently, copyright law is doing double duty, (1) protecting
>sh> copyright-holders from users who would make copies of their
>sh> texts without paying for them (give-away authors do not want this
>sh> protection) and (2) protecting copyright-holders from users who
>sh> would make corrupted copies of their texts (including copies in
>sh> which someone else is listed as the author). Almost all authors
>sh> still want protection from the latter.
> [identity removed]: This is, I think, a material point that has
> otherwise been overlooked in the debate.
Agreed. But "overlooked" is an operational matter! It's not as if this
point has not been made, in writing (and skywriting), repeatedly, to be
looked over (by those with eyes open to see and minds open to understand!)
See:
"PostGutenberg Copyright Concerns"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#5
[or just do a google search on: (harnad copyright protection authorship)]
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A 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):
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
or
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
Discussion can be posted to: american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess
and the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 18:02:20 BST