tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post8267638062649093827..comments2024-03-19T21:41:42.835+01:00Comments on Poemas del río Wang: SOPA negra, or the black soupStudiolumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-6095501571390957762012-01-23T16:51:43.206+01:002012-01-23T16:51:43.206+01:00"Black as pitch" -- no "a.""Black as pitch" -- no "a."languagehathttp://www.languagehat.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-89385195171813671322012-01-23T09:35:04.713+01:002012-01-23T09:35:04.713+01:00As far as I know, PIPA, the protect IP Act, is sti...As far as I know, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-could-infringe-on-free-speech.html?_r=2" rel="nofollow">PIPA</a>, the protect IP Act, is still on the table, as is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act" rel="nofollow">HR3699</a>. The latter may seem arcane, but would reverse a small gain made for open-scholarship.<br /><br />“The Research Works Act, also known as H.R.3699, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives at the 112th United States Congress on December 16, 2011, by Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and co-sponsored by Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY). The bill contains provisions to prohibit open access mandates for federally funded research and effectively revert the NIH’s Public Access Policy that allows taxpayer-funded research to be freely accessible online.” (Wikipedia).<br /><br />'Black soup' indeed. Whether the 'free flow of knowledge and ideas' is truly a flow, or rather a syphon into Google and Facebook vaults, we can leave for another time.<br /><br />Happy New Year, by the way. May the dragon favour río Wang.walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02603255065547405744noreply@blogger.com