Interesting and perhaps relevant:
- Jean-Claude Guédon's examination of power in science. Does e-research destabilize this situation? How? If it doesn't, should it?
- Should copyright in academic works be abolished? Makes the obvious point that journal-article authors don't use copyright for its intended purpose of filthy lucre, and extrapolates from there. What I notice is that journal-article authors use copyright as a bulwark against plagiarism, lack of credit, and (whatever they perceive to be) misappropriation. Copyright is a lousy tool for that. We need better ones. Personally, I'd prefer that they bypass the legal system altogether.
- A nifty-looking modeling tool: Emergent Trails for brain-process modeling.
- A workflow tool: VisTrails. (Am I the only person who gets an Ars Magica frisson from that name? I probably am. I am such a nerd.) Tracks who did what to what when, with what result. Pluggable, written in Python.
Have a pleasant weekend!
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Since I work at York University, I'm going to refrain from commenting on this lawsuit. However, as is my practice I'll be creating and maintaining a list of relevant articles and resources here to help me stay current on the matter.
I am not attempting to create a comprehensive list.
In the comments on my DMCA post, a reader asked me to comment on this piece of silliness. I try not to disappoint my readers, so here's my take.
Last week I performed my semi-annual copyright registration ritual, and in the middle of the paperwork it occurred to me that this might make an absolutely scintillating blog post. So, here's why copyright registration is important, and here's how to do it.
Traveling and busy as hell, but wanted to share this. The ever expanding copyright laws is one of my pet peeves, but almost as irritating as the increasing length of copyright is the difficulty in knowing if something is still under copyright.