Re: Guerilla Open Access

Posted by Daniel Haran on Sep 23, 2008; 6:25pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1250.html

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Heather Morrison <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Re:  scraping and infringing and telling everyone - please note that OA
> advocates in the U.S. are battling a concerted effort by the anti-OA
> publishing lobby to basically change U.S. copyright law to prevent public
> access mandates to federally funded research.  The Conyers bill is nuts, but
> could easily get slipped into another bill and passed.
>
> This is not a great time to be public about infringing; this would help the
> opposition.
>
> Not that I'm against this approach altogether, just not the best timing.
>
> best,
>
> Heather Morrison

How would this help the opposition?

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