[sc-announce] Hal Abelson on commons-based problem solving -- Science Commons blog
Donna Wentworth
dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Fri Apr 4 12:56:56 EDT 2008
Hal Abelson on commons-based problem solving
April 4th, 2008<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/04/04/hal-abelson-on-supporting-our-intellectual-commons/>by
dwentworth
If you're curious about the current state of play in efforts to make
knowledge sharing easier so we can solve problems faster, look no further.
Science Commons Advisory Board
<http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/>member Hal
Abelson <http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/abelson/> — a founding
director of Creative Commons <http://www.creativecommons.org/>, the Free
Software Foundation <http://www.gnu.org/> and Public
Knowledge<http://www.publicknowledge.org/>— provides a big-picture
perspective on these efforts in the latest
podcast interview
<http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/podcast-abelson/1044/>from MIT
Libraries in its terrific
series<http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/podcasts/>on
Scholarly Publishing & Copyright.
"The way I first got into this is with software," explains Abelson in the
interview. "Prior to [the early '80s], if there was a program around, you
could contact the author and get a copy, and you could make it better — that
was the key thing, to make it better. Around the mid-'80s, that stopped…Then
it became kind of clear that this attitude — not sharing your software and
thus jeopardizing any kind of collective enterprise that could exist, was
also going to be true for other kinds of copyrighted works, as they
increasingly got online."
You can download the full podcast
here<http://libraries.mit.edu/media/scholarly/abelson.mp3>[MP3]. If
you'd like to subscribe to the series, you can paste the following
link into your iTunes or another podcast reader:
http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/6772/
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Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
dwentworth at creativecommons.org <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
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