[FC-discuss] Free Thesis Project Released Today

[Fred Benenson]

On 5/4/07, rob at robmyers.org <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>
> Quoting Crosbie Fitch <crosbie at cyberspaceengineers.org>:
>
> > Any scholar who has a web site and deliberately provides only abstracts
> to
> > their papers rather than the full text (only available to
> > 'members/subscribers'), is demonstrating a lack of philanthropy and
> > intellect that can be presumed similarly lacking in their paper.
>
> Well they may be restricted by publication requirements or college
> policy. But if not then this is indefensible. Apart from anything else
> they also fail to recognise that they are downstream of other scholars.
>
> Academic freedom is an identifiable and defensible principle.
> Alternative licensing schemes can restore lost rights over academic
> material that they cover, and a body of such work helps to make the
> case for more general reform. BY is a weak way of doing this, but does
> possibly reflect academia's relationship to society at large. BSD is
> an academic license after all.
>
> People do need to be careful to check that their university doesn't
> claim copyright on their work before releasing it CC though.


On that note, we should take a look at what Free Culture @ USC is doing:

http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/freeculture/?p=34

USC has one of the more maximalist IP regimes for student work, this chapter
is working hard to reform it. They've done some really good work, and
getting the school's policy to accept CC would be a real coup.

F

- Rob.
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