[IRTalk] Eminent Open Access: A Little Thought Experiment

[Hilton Gibson]

*Think about it for a moment. What privately held property could possibly
benefit the public more than the scholarly record?* The accumulated
knowledge of the researchers of the last 100 years or so (i.e., research
articles still under copyright of disseminators as opposed to authors)? Has
there ever been a better public use argument for taking private property
under the government’s eminent domain power? Honestly, what is the benefit
of a road somewhere compared to the scholarly record?

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4501
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