[FC-discuss] [FC-Discuss] Universities and free content

[Dmcdevit]

Fred Benenson wrote:
> The whole point should be to encourage people who don't have a chapter 
> to go discover these facts.
>
> We should absolutely not make it a requisite that you have to have a 
> chapter, or even an interest in starting one, in order to help us.
>
> FYI NYU's policy is pretty good -- they're really cagey about giving 
> out privacy information to non-supoenaing parties, and they let 
> students own their work and release it under CC / GPL / whatever.
>
> I've also have had meetings with the Dean of Libraries and other big 
> people at NYU and they tend to be pretty accepting about Open Access 
> though not necessarily pro-active.
>
> But their p2p policy is pretty stupid, they have plenty of 
> double-speak in it. Anyway, maybe I'll create an entry in here for it.
>
> But I'd really like a chart -- does anyone want to make one? With nice 
> Red / Green backgrounds?
>
> F
This is interesting. I'll have to take some more time to look into 
Reed's policies, but my sense is that we are not one of the bad ones. 
I've taken a stab at table-ifying the ranking, if that's what you were 
looking for. <http://wiki.freeculture.org/Hit_List#The_Hit_List> Feel 
free to completely redo it if you have something else in mind.

Dominic