[Fsfe-france] Open Access en Europe et EUCD-like en Suisse

[Benoît Sibaud]

EU report recommends open access to publicly funded scientific research
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.8/openaccess
"This is a serious blow for traditional publishers of scientific journals
who are worried that subscriptions will drop. According to the report, the
price of scientific journals increased 300% more than the inflation rate
during the last 10 years, which put a limitation to the dissemination of
knowledge and scientific progress."

Debate on the revision of Swiss copyright law
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number4.8/copyrightswiss
"The primary goal of the copyright revision is the ratification of the two
WIPO Internet Treaties. (...) A crucial point is the legal status
conferred to technical copyright protection measures, such as Digital
Rights Management (DRM), and ensuring prohibition of their circumvention.
However, in contrast with copyright laws passed in other countries,
circumvention would be allowed for uses authorized in general by copyright
law (personal copies, fair use). File downloading will remain legal,
because users cannot be required to decide whether a file is offered
legally or not. The proposed law clarifies the legal status of Internet
Providers, stating that they can't be held responsible for their
customers' copyright infringements. The Federal Council would also install
an Observatory (Observatoire des mesures techniques) to arbitrate between
the different parties and to watch over the use and misuse of technical
protection measures. The Observatory was heavily criticised by all sides,
especially by consumer organisations because it would lack power.
Regarding the payment of rights, the Federal Council favors the
co-existence of their traditional levying by collecting societies, and of
direct automated levying through DRM technologies."

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Benoît Sibaud