Villanova University Legal Working Paper Series
Villanova University School of Law Working Paper Series
The Movement for Open Access Law
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Forthcoming in the Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 10, 2006.
Abstract
My claim in this contribution to this important symposium is that the law and legal scholarship should be freely available on the Internet, and copyright law and licensing should facilitate achievement of this goal. This claim reflects the combined aims of those who support the movement for open access law. This nascent movement is a natural extension of the well-developed movement for free access to primary legal materials and the equally well-developed open access movement, which seeks to make all scholarly journal articles freely available on the Internet. Legal scholars have only general familiarity with the first movement and very little familiarity with the second. In this contribution, I demonstrate the linkages between these movements and briefly outline the argument for open access law.
Subject Area
Intellectual Property Law, Legal Education
Recommended Citation
Michael W. Carroll,
"The Movement for Open Access Law"
(June 2006).
Villanova University Legal Working Paper Series.
Villanova University School of Law Working Paper Series.
Working Paper 50.
http://law.bepress.com/villanovalwps/papers/art50
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