[GOAL] A New Declaration of Rights: Open Content Mining

[Richard Poynder]

/In a recent //investment report/ 
<http://cdn.anonfiles.com/1334923359479.pdf>/, analyst //Claudio Aspesi/ 
<http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/scholarly-publishing-where-is-plan-b.html>/concluded 
that a new front had opened up in the Open Access (//OA/ 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access>/) debate. Writing in April, 
Aspesi noted that academics are "increasingly protesting the limitations 
to the usage of the information and data contained in the articles 
published through subscription models, and --- in particular --- to the 
practice of text mining articles." Aspesi is right, and a central figure 
in this battleground is University of Cambridge chemist //Peter 
Murray-Rust/ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust>/. A 
long-time advocate for open data, Murray-Rust is now spearheading an 
initiative to draft a "//Content Mining Declaration/ 
<http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/01/the-right-to-read-is-the-right-to-mine/>/". 
What is the background to this?/

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/new-declaration-of-rights-open-content.html
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