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Yale's Access to Knowledge program

Dec 16, 2008, 11:41 AM

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Dear folks,

Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects
relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with
the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that
request on to you -- I figured many of you have some ideas about
questions Yale law students could research on free information and
free culture.

Yale and WMF have an affiliation that's now in its second year -- we
like to help them out when we can, and they remain solid supporters of
our work, so we'd be grateful if you could share any access-to-
knowledge research ideas with us (either privately to me or publicly
on this list).

--Mike

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Re: Yale's Access to Knowledge program [ In reply to ]

geniice at gmail

Dec 16, 2008, 11:58 AM

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2008/12/16 Mike Godwin <mgodwin@wikimedia.org>:
>
> Dear folks,
>
> Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects
> relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with
> the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that
> request on to you -- I figured many of you have some ideas about
> questions Yale law students could research on free information and
> free culture.

Is there a link to a more exact specification? I mean checking the accuracy of
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:FOP
and extending it comes to mind but I don't know if that would qualify.
Similar projects would probably be finding out what the various laws
relating to government produced documents actually are (we kinda fall
apart outside the western world) and finding out how legal say the GPL
actually is in the face the more agressive of moral rights clauses.

--
geni

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Re: Yale's Access to Knowledge program [ In reply to ]

millosh at gmail

Dec 17, 2008, 3:34 AM

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects
> relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with
> the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that
> request on to you -- I figured many of you have some ideas about
> questions Yale law students could research on free information and
> free culture.
>
> Yale and WMF have an affiliation that's now in its second year -- we
> like to help them out when we can, and they remain solid supporters of
> our work, so we'd be grateful if you could share any access-to-
> knowledge research ideas with us (either privately to me or publicly
> on this list).

Great! I think that we've got the right group for the analysis of our
activities. Mike, may you take a look at [1] and tell is the described
problem inside of the scope of Yale students? If so, I would like to
be included in this project form WMF side.

[1] - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-December/048218.html

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