[sklyarov-chicago] [fegray@npl.uiuc.edu: [DOchsner@beacon.org: AAP opinion on Sklyarov not shared by publishers]]

[Michael Cannon]

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--- "Peter A. Peterson II" <pedro@tastytronic.net>
wrote:
> Quoting Michael Cannon:
> > Oh...we got 'em on the ropes...somebody FAX this
> to
> > the newsrooms (I don't have a FAX) and start
> calling
> > the pressrooms with the statement 'Former
> > Congresswoman Patsy Schroeder was just rebuffed
> VERY
> > embarrassingly and VERY publicly by one of the
> members
> > of the organization that she is President of?" 
> Then
> > read them the story.
> > 
> > Email slashdot and TechTV and CNNinteractive and
> the
> > rest of the geek press with the same message. 
> MAKE IT
> > PERSONAL.  The public loves that.
> 
> What's funny is that the IEEE and the ACM -- both
> big technology science
> professional groups are members of the AAP -- and
> both VERY anti-DMCA.
> They're working on letters, I think. Or are being
> encouraged to do so.
> 

...and the scientists and professors are calling for a
boycott of Research Publications based, in part, on
the DMCA...AND it's spreading to the Genome and
genetics projects (and cures for cancer for little
babies and Parkinson's for Millie and Michael J. Fox
and cures for spinal cord injuries for Chris Reeves)
by the avenue of bioinformatics (which is what solved
the Genome).

So the statement becomes "The DMCA may set the cure
for cancer (or 'Michael J. Fox's cure' or 'Christoper
Reeves' cure') back by five years, because scientists
will not be allowed to share their research or
adequately protect it?"

Wack a mole

Mike
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