Copyright, Science, and the Public Interest (June 20, 2003)

Background Resources

"A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment"
J.H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir, 66 Law & Contemporary Problems 315 (Winter-Spring 2003)

Directory of Open Access Journals.

Mark S. Frankel, "Seizing the Moment: Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age."

"Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing," June 2000.

Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
The National Academies
19-20 March 2003

Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science
10-11 March 2003
The National Academies, in collaboration with CODATA, ICSTI, ICSU, and UNESCO

Symposium on the Role of S&T Data and Information in the Public Domain
5-6 September 2002
The National Academies

U.S. Copyright Office, "Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control of Technologies," Federal Register, October 15, 2002.

USPTO, "Technological Protection Systems for Digitized Copyrighted Works: A Report to Congress."