[FC-discuss] Grammy Foundation and Legal Writing competition forLaw Students

[Brian Rowe]

The issue is not about the value of the copyright, it is about access to
justice and open access publishing scholarly publications.  Law review
articles are part of the law, all be it only persuasive.  Copyright here is
use to control access to potentially usefully, powerful and even dangerous
ideas.

A lot of the law reviews lock way content leaving no rights for the author
or the public.  Most law professors have to publish to keep their jobs
leaving them in a bad place to try to change the system.  In US law schools
this is a large issue currently.  A few law journals 35 or so have started
to change this trend.  Depending on the journal they plan to publish in this
could be a very large issue.

-Brian

On 9/20/07, Dana Powers <dana.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> is there a rube goldberg prize for copyright licensing proposals?
>
> On 9/20/07, Crosbie Fitch <crosbie at cyberspaceengineers.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Believe it or not, but there is a way that authors could be happy to
> > transfer copyright of their work to the GRAMMY Foundation, and that is
> on
> > condition that the GF granted the author a CC-SA licence.
> >
> > 1) The copyright isn't actually worth anything anyway. Who are you going
> to
> > sue?
> > 2) The CC-SA licence prevents GF suing the author for the liberties they
> > should be able to take with their own work.
> > 3) The author doesn't need to suspend anyone's liberty so doesn't need
> the
> > copyright anyway - just the CC-SA.
> >
> > So, before you get all uppity and think you deserve the copyright, and
> GF
> > should be happy with a non-exclusive license like the CC-SA, why not
> > demonstrate where the value lies? Give the GF the unethical copyright,
> and
> > let them give you the licence.
> >
> > Stop prizing the copyright!
> >
> > Prize the liberty obtained from its nullification.
> >
> > Liberty is the right you should prize. Liberty is the right that is
> > suspended by copyright. Copyright is a commercial privilege - not a
> right.
> >
> > Reserve all of your rights.
> > Reject all of your privileges.
> >
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