The Zyprexa scandal has had some interesting developments in the last week or two.
The NYTimes covers the EFF filing on behalf of a John Doe for the rights to publish information related to the case to a wiki anonymously. The EFF has also setup its own Zyprexa case site where you can find copies of [...]
Thanks to everyone who stopped by for our Taking Action on Open Access Conference and special thanks to Heather, Gavin and John for providing such fantastic presentations.
Gavin Yamey will be speaking twice more at NYU later this week and we figured you might be interested in attending. Here is the information:
Restricted Access to the Medical [...]
So, this weekend is the Open Access summit and I wanted to share some thoughts on how to help bring this on a widespread basis.
Closely tied to open access is encouraging funding organizations to include language in their grant proposals which promotes open access, for code and content. This is in the foundation’s best interest [...]
photo by Bart Nagel
On January 19th at 5pm Free Culture @ NYU and NYU ACM are hosting a talk by Cory Doctorow. The event will be at the Courant Institute in Room 109 at 5pm-7pm.
Cory will be speaking on “State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet.”
Cory co-edits the [...]
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From the FreeCulture.org blog:
Freeculture.org will be holding an organization-wide Open Access event in NYC on Jan. 13, 2007 from 12-5pm at NYU, exact location TBA. All chapters are invited and encouraged to attend.
The event will be free and is open to anyone interested in advocating for Open Access and Free Culture on university campuses. There [...]
A friend of mine recently had a chance to hear Matt Pittinsky, the chairman of Blackboard give a presentation at Teachers College at Columbia University on new software system he is working on. Matt took a little heat for his company’s policies, which have caused “great consternation” in the educational world, as this open [...]
In what some are calling an “early Christmas present” the US Copyright Office and Library of Congress have issued 6 new exemptions to the DMCA. Below is a list of the exemptions with my thoughts and attempted explanations underneath each one. Note that I am certainly not a lawyer and this is my opinion as [...]
Brian Braiker at Newsweek covers our recent DRM protest at the Apple store:
Fred Benenson spent a recent drizzly Saturday afternoon with friends in Manhattan wearing yellow hazmat suits. They were in front of the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue, distributing flyers and explaining to passersby why iTunes, Apple’s online music store, “sucks.” The target [...]
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