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On 23-Sep-08, at 11:57 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
open data. If open data goes ahead with public infringement, this is
to take the ibelieveincanada.ca button off my blog.
the same potential synergies, and the same issues here.
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> Also, I think it is ok to focus on the Canadian elections and not
> necessarily the US opposition!
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> cheers
> t
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Heather Morrison
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> best,
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> h
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> On 23-Sep-08, at 11:25 AM, Daniel Haran wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Heather Morrison
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> 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.
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> This is not a great time to be public about infringing; this would
> help the
> opposition.
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> Not that I'm against this approach altogether, just not the best
> timing.
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> best,
>
> Heather Morrison
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> How would this help the opposition?
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> d.
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