Monday, 20. February 2012
Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 20, 2012 at 10:56:00 AM CET
ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, RWA and what do they have to do with psychologists
These days, the news are full of acronyms dealing with various legislation concerning copyright. The problematic of copyright laws has long since left the geeky closet of the software community or the posh one of the poor and abused music industry. The acronyms in our title, familiar to most, are proof enough of their mainstream status. It is a central issue for the new generation, and everybody has an opinion on it. In this post, I would like to put the open access movement into that context, to see how it relates to the general public outcry regarding copyright legislation. Are these things connected? If yes, how?
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