Dear folks,
Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that request on to you -- I figured many of you have some ideas about questions Yale law students could research on free information and free culture.
Yale and WMF have an affiliation that's now in its second year -- we like to help them out when we can, and they remain solid supporters of our work, so we'd be grateful if you could share any access-to- knowledge research ideas with us (either privately to me or publicly on this list).
--Mike
2008/12/16 Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org:
Dear folks,
Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that request on to you -- I figured many of you have some ideas about questions Yale law students could research on free information and free culture.
Is there a link to a more exact specification? I mean checking the accuracy of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:FOP and extending it comes to mind but I don't know if that would qualify. Similar projects would probably be finding out what the various laws relating to government produced documents actually are (we kinda fall apart outside the western world) and finding out how legal say the GPL actually is in the face the more agressive of moral rights clauses.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that request on to you -- I figured many of you have some ideas about questions Yale law students could research on free information and free culture.
Yale and WMF have an affiliation that's now in its second year -- we like to help them out when we can, and they remain solid supporters of our work, so we'd be grateful if you could share any access-to- knowledge research ideas with us (either privately to me or publicly on this list).
Great! I think that we've got the right group for the analysis of our activities. Mike, may you take a look at [1] and tell is the described problem inside of the scope of Yale students? If so, I would like to be included in this project form WMF side.
[1] - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-December/048218.html
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