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Entire Editorial Board of Library Journal Resigns over Aaron Schwartz' Death - Bob Schroeck - 04-01-2013
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/41497 ... ron-swartz]Citing a "crisis of conscience" over the journal's online licensing terms This leaves the Journal of Library Administration without any editorial staff whatsover and its next issue dead in the water because its owners are less than open to the idea of charging anything less than thousands of dollars for access to the journal.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Berk - 04-01-2013
Well color me shocked.
I wish it had come a little sooner.
I wonder if this will spur any sort of discussion on how utterly stupid this is all getting.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead
- LynnInDenver - 04-02-2013
Quote:Berk wrote:I'm not sure there will be meaningful discussion about how stupid copyright and copyright enforcement has gotten (from the pressure of both sides - copyright maximalists and technology that makes copying information trivially easy) until they either realize that the old models are past obsolete into utterly antiquated... or they get the rest of their week's meals eaten by the upstart.
Well color me shocked.
I wish it had come a little sooner.
I wonder if this will spur any sort of discussion on how utterly stupid this is all getting.
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