News: UC Joins Google Library Project. The University of California is joining Google's book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement. The deal covers all the libraries in UC's 10-campus system, marking the biggest expansion of Google's effort to convert millions of library books into digital form since a group of authors and publishers sued last fall to derail a project launched 20 months ago.
"We think this is a pretty significant step forward," said Adam Smith, the group product manager overseeing Google's book-scanning initiative. UC joins three other major U.S. universities — Stanford, Michigan and Harvard — that are contributing their vast library collections to Google's crusade to ensure reams of knowledge written on paper makes the transition to the digital age. The New York Public Library and Oxford University also are allowing portions of their libraries to be scanned. Definition - Definition of Free Cultural Works. Students for Free Culture. Students for Free Culture is sometimes referred to as "FreeCulture", "the Free Culture Movement", and other variations on the "free culture" theme, but none of those are its official name.
It is officially Students for Free Culture, as set for in the new bylaws that were ratified by its chapters on October 1, 2007, which changed its name from FreeCulture.org to Students for Free Culture.[3] Goals[edit] Students for Free Culture has stated its goals in a "manifesto": The mission of the Free Culture movement is to build a bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture, rather than a top-down, closed, proprietary structure. It has yet to publish a more "official" mission statement, but some of its goals are: Purpose[edit] According to its website,[5] Students for Free Culture has four main functions within the free culture movement: History[edit] Initial stirrings at Swarthmore College[edit] The OPG v. FreeCulture.org launches at Swarthmore[edit] Internet campaigns[edit] Structure[edit]
Fundación Copyleft. El derecho a leer - Proyecto GNU - Fundación para el software li. Esta es una traducción de la página original en inglés. por Richard Stallman Inscríbase a nuestra lista de correo sobre los peligros de los libros electrónicos. Este artículo fue publicado en febrero de 1997 en Communications of the ACM (Vol. 40, Número 2). De El camino a Tycho, una colección de artículos sobre los antecedentes de la Revolución Lunar, publicado en Luna City en 2096.
Para Dan Halbert el camino a Tycho comenzó en la universidad, cuando un día Lissa Lenz le pidió prestado el ordenador. El de ella se había estropeado, y a menos que consiguiera otro, su proyecto de fin de trimestre sería reprobado. Esto puso a Dan en un dilema. Además, no había muchas posibilidades de evitar que la SPA, Software Protection Authority (Autoridad de Protección del Software) lo descubriese.
Quizá Lissa no pretendía leer sus libros. Más tarde Dan descubrió que había habido un tiempo en el que todo el mundo podía ir a una biblioteca y leer artículos, incluso libros, sin tener que pagar. Nota del autor. Copyfight: the politics of IP. Coloriuris.