An interesting news related to this thread.<div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="ha" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;margin:12px 1px 9px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:inherit;border-right:inherit;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal">
<span id=":y4" class="hP" tabindex="-1" style="outline:none;padding-right:10px">White House orders open access to federally sponsored research</span></h1></div><div>Link: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf</a></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Anirudh Bhati <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:anirudhsbh@gmail.com" target="_blank">anirudhsbh@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Abhijeet Safai <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:abhijeet.safai@gmail.com" target="_blank">abhijeet.safai@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


What a great move!<div><br></div><div>If the research is funded by people it HAS to be available in public domain! </div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div> Though this article does not mention whether the content will be ultimately available in the Public Domain (capitalized, free of copyright restrictions), it would be wonderful to see Common Law jurisdictions move towards making public-funded works available under PD.</div>
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