[okfn-discuss] Aaron Swartz - should OKFN take a position?

Tue Jul 26 10:59:33 BST 2011

More appropriate, perhaps, and more interesting because the
motivtations are more clear-cut, would be some sort of statement on
the release of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions.

OKFN supports the public domain and the release of out of copyright
works and I think it is reasonably clear that it would be wrong of
either the RS or JSTOR or both to try to restrict access to humanity's
shared scientific and cultural heritage in this way.

-w

* [2011-07-26 14:56:46 +1200] Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> écrit:

> I would like to see OKFN make a statement supporting Aaron Swartz. He
> has done some great things in the open knowledge space, including
> developing the Open Library. He's been arrested and charged with
> federal crimes relating to the misuse of JSTOR's network for
> downloading tens of thousands of documents. He used guest logins at
> MIT with spoofed IP/MAC addresses to gain access. Moreover, it appears
> he broke into MIT's networking cabinets so that he could store the
> laptop & external hard drive.
> 
> Some views on the case:
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2011/07/24/aaron-swartz-v-united-states/
> (SJ Klein, who I know from OLPC)
> 
> I feel that the community should make some public statement.
> 
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