U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swartz Case

Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swar... by jacquesm on Thursday January 17, 2013 @04:33PM (#5075359)

There was a mix-up between academia and the publishers, with academia's financial issues used to bolster the case against sharing this data. But in actual fact the academic institutions pay the publishers and those publishers are very wealthy.

On another note, why is there only one 'kind' of copyright? Why do the same rules that apply to work written for profit apply to work written for scientific edification? Some differentiation there would go a long way towards solving these problems.

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Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swar... by mpyne on Thursday January 17, 2013 @08:10PM (#5076440)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all a fan of the system setup by Elsevier et al. There's a lot that can and should be done to overhaul and scale back our system of copyright and other "intellectual property" to work better for the progress of society. I'm just also not a fan of the concept of "the ends justify the means".

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