Copyright and ALA
Wow.
Jason Griffey, who runs Pattern Recognition has completed his master's paper on copyright, open access and ALA.
The paper is already available on his site, under a Creative Commons license, and has been given a great review by Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing.
My own review: very thought-provoking, somewhat provocative (a major argument in Jason's paper is that ALA's publishing protocols for copyright assignment and licensing undermines its own support for copyright reform) and highly readable and interesting. Congratulations, Jason! And on a personal note, I'm very jealous. May I emphasize that it's highly readable, even at 80 pages?
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a new scholar to reckon with ... yay, Jason!
Comments
You are MUCH too kind. I'm curious to see if I garner a response from anyone at the ALA, given that it was released online and not in a peer-reviewed journal.
Posted by: Jason | April 7, 2004 01:02 PM
What kind of response it gets will depend on who sees it. Who do you want to see it?
And on a similar note, do you plan to submit for publication? Say, to Library Quarterly?
Posted by: misseli | April 7, 2004 02:04 PM
Yeah, I'm thinking about that. It needs to be edited into "article" form first, but submission to a journal is forthcoming. Any other suggestions?
Posted by: Jason | April 7, 2004 02:26 PM