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OffzRoad: December 2005
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Wednesday, December 28, 2005. S 2104 mandates open access for publicly funded research paper, this could be great news! Thanks to John T. Mitchell (Interaction Law) for pointing to this recently proposed bill. This is big. It mandates open access! Http:/ thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D? D109:23:./temp/ bddrq0:@ @P. Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] - 12/14/2005. SEC 499H-1. PUBLIC ACCESS REQ...
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OffzRoad: February 2007
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Friday, February 02, 2007. OECD June 2008 Ministerial: some issues are jelling? The OECD-NSF Workshop - "Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet" was held in the National Science Foundation Boardroom, in Arlington on 31st January 2007. This meeting was per invitation only (we all had 2 badges, one for the building and one for the room? The following 30 issues were di...
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OffzRoad: May 2006
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Thursday, May 25, 2006. Sign on for Support of Access to Science Bill. The bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006. Because it will improve access to science, the legislation is supported by various national organizations of academic libraries including the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Researc...
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OffzRoad: September 2006
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Saturday, September 16, 2006. WIPO little Dialogue at SCCR 15 re the broadcasting treaty. In the series you have to be there to believe it. On Tuesday September 12, 2006:. NGO person: So, what do you think is going to happen now? A recommendation to convene a diplomatic conference? NGO: What about the third possibility? It's a bad treaty and it is bad for the public? Jeff Kaplan IT Blog.
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IP Disputes in Medicine.
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OffzRoad: February 2006
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Monday, February 27, 2006. Fixing one orphan work problem and creating a new one. One can only wish that 1 ) they would follow the same process of various public consultations regarding their work on creating new rights for webcasters (see WIPO proposed treaty that would include webcasting) and that 2) they address (before it's too late? Posted by Manon Ress at 3:36 PM. Motion CPU / ADBU.
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OffzRoad: November 2005
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Wednesday, November 30, 2005. Working on DRM regulations. Like the right to circumvent to archive? The "hanging" big issue is what is the role of government in regulating DRMS? It's supposed to enforced the TPMs but does it really set the standards? Posted by Manon Ress at 5:12 PM. It looks as if no one is paying attention: webcasters got what they wanted at the last SCCR. There Is No God.
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OffzRoad: January 2006
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Wednesday, January 25, 2006. Open Access and New Models of Creative production, plug for books and policies. It was not a "policy wonk" crowd but all these people are serioulsy studying how to make open access to knowledge happen faster and better. And many among them are "practitioners" as demonstrated by the MIT Courseware (all PDF sadly they're not using ODF! John Willinsky: The Access ...
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OffzRoad: October 2006
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This blog is not for people who do not like acronyms, French grammar and bitterness (if this is your case, go away). Thursday, October 26, 2006. What's up re Open Standards at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)? The first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is next week in Athens, Greece (Oct 30-Nov 2). The IGF is a product of the WSIS-Tunis Agenda. The sponsors believe that the IGF should proactively address issues of openness and interoperability in the Information Society by paying particu...
