intellectual property

Links to Chronicle of Higher Ed articles about scholars fighting with academic publishers for better access to their own and others' scholarship.

Not sure what to make of this story--if it really has this potential, why is it not popping up in more places? But perhaps it will end up mattering as much as David Gerstein suggests:

A rough-and-ready list of some of the works that will (may?) move into the public domain this year.

Of course, as the page notes, this is necessarily tentative:

When Attributor, purveyor of "the world’s first web-wide monitoring and enforcement platform," released "new research that examines the demand for pirated e-books across the Web and calculates how many people look for pirated e-book material on a daily basis," Eric Hellman, quite understandably, expressed some doubt about their numbers. When he conducted a test using Google AdWords, his skepticism only increased.