Posted by
Heather Morrison on
Sep 23, 2008; 6:33pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1251.html
As an illustration of why the legislation is needed. A bad and
totally inappropriate example, but might convince a busy legislator
who doesn't really have time to read and think about the details of
every piece of legislation that comes their way.
One way to explain: the argument that the "N" in NIH (US National
Institutes of Health) should not stand for "Napster" is being used to
fight the NIH Public Access Mandate. Ridiculous, of course, but
anyone who has followed OA advocacy over the years knows that logic
is not a requirement of the anti-OA lobby for its arguments.
Any legislator who understands copyright, does a thorough reading and
is making decisions based on what makes sense (as opposed to who to
contibuting to the campaign expenses), is not supporting this bill,
anyway...
best,
h
On 23-Sep-08, at 11:25 AM, Daniel Haran wrote:
> 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?
>
> d.
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