O'Reilly Pushing Founder's Copyright System

O'Reilly Pushing Founder's Copyright System

Posted by chrisd on Saturday March 22, @02:58PM
from the creative-commons-good dept.
alansz writes "The O'Reilly and Associates Open Books Project has been around for a while, and I've just received a letter from Tim about the next step" Read on if you are interested in the creative commons, and how O'Reilly authors are being asked to take part.

Alansz continues, "ORA authors are being encouraged to allow ORA to self-limit their copyright to the Founders' Copyright (14 years with one 14-year extension possible), and to allow ORA to distribute their out-of-print (or post-Founder's Copyright) books to the public using the Creative Commons Attribution license (you can freely copy and distribute the work and derivatives, as long as you attribute the work to the author and ORA). Author agreement is required in order for ORA to transfer rights to Creative Commons.

The letter included a handy FAQ about author options (allow assignment to Creative Commons, stick with the usual maximum copyright deal, or have three months to try to find another publisher when the book goes out-of-print and allow assignment to CC if you don't). The letter also notes that different editions of books count as different works, so your latest edition can still be selling commercially and earlier editions can be released as open books.

(For my out-of-print ORA book, I'm going to allow them to assign the rights to CC and make it freely available. It's great to see a publisher thinking about copyright this way, but it's no more than I'd expect from the good folks at ORA.)"

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This is cool, a publisher who gets it.

4:39:39 PM    comment []  

Some goals for mysite.teknoids.net:

1. Get leading members of the tech community to use the site.
1. John Mayer
2. Tom Bruce
3. Me ;)
4. Ben Chapman
5. John Heywood
6. Cyndi Dean
7. Gary Moore
8. Pablo Molina
9. etc.
2. Get law schools to adopt this as place to run 'news and events' blogs.
3. Market this to law faculty and librarians as an official CALI product through all of the usual channels beginning at the conference.
4. Make use of the site for internal CALI blogs
5. Tie the Frontier db to SQL Server via ODBC to allow for tracking of contacts.
6. Develop new CALI web products on this platform:
1. Custom, targetted aggregators
2. Directories
3. Topical weblogs tied to lessons

1:50:11 PM    comment []  

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: ajc.com: Ga. flag debate threatens law event - An organization of law professors has sent word to Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin that it might move its January convention from Georgia if the flap over the state flag isn't settled.
The possibility was raised in a March 7 letter from the Association of American Law Schools, which Franklin forwarded this week to lawmakers at the state Capitol.

This flag thing here in GA is just out of hand.  I fail to see how any thinking person can support an emblem that has come to represent the worst parts of American history.  The flag some wnat back was put in place in the 1950's specifically to tweak those involved in the civil rights movement and to mark GA's place as a bastion of segregation and bigotry.  There is nothing to be proud of in that flag.

Note: The AJC public archive only lives for a week, so I've copied the story here.

12:37:21 PM    comment []