universities
University of Ottawa goes Open Access
There is some exciting news at the University of Ottawa as it has become the first major Canadian research university to announce a comprehensive open access strategy . As part of the announcement, the University has joined the Compact for Open Access Publishing . It is the first non-U.S.
Continue reading »UK cops, spy agencies, say No to 3 strikes plan
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Britain’s spy and police agencies have in effect come out in support of file sharers. The UK government is twisting and turning in its efforts to please the entertainment industry by finding a way to impose the same Three Strikes anti-P2P plan that’s giving Hollywood and Big music lobbyist Nicolas Sarkozy so much trouble in France. The plan would have governments such as Sarkozy’s performing as taxpayer-supported Hollywood and Big Music agencies, and ISPs functioning as online copyright police.
Continue reading »Will ‘perception’ cripple Warner’s Choruss?
Warner Music has invested a lot of time, money and effort in its Choruss licensing project , declaring it’s something the academic world simply can’t do without. Under it, students would be expected to pay Warner $5 a month for music downloads, said p2pnet recently, continuing TechDirt ’s Mike Masnick was, “one of, if not the, first to criticise it, saying the Warner Music Choruss licensing scheme amounts to a Bait-And-Switch operation”. Jim Griffin, hired by Warner to make it happen and convince people it should, told p2pnet Masnick’s story was “ factually incorrect in every respect “.
Continue reading »‘Be afwaid! Be vewy, vewy afwaid!’
I work with a company called Perceptric that’s involved in collecting statistics on P2P in an attempt to disprove industry claims that P2P is damaging the content Industries livelihood. A number of times over the last few months, I’ve been on the verge of completing a report about P2P that we were going to release to the world. But every time I got close, a new fact would turn up that required additional questions to be researched and answered.
Continue reading »