This is sort of old (from last Tuesday), but I haven’t seen it posted elsewhere. The heirs of the sculptor Paul Landowski, who is the author of the famous Christ the Redeemer statute in Rio de Janeiro, are asking for royalties from the admittance ticket sales into the attraction. This Read more…
Remember Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall”? Remember the chorus of kids singing “We don’t need to education”? Now, those kids are asking for the royalties that they are due from the recording of those famous lyrics. EMI, Pink Floyd’s record label, has declined to comment, but those kids Read more…
This is an interesting exchange of ideas about open access journals between Matthew Cockerill, the editor of BioMed Central, and John Enderby, vice-president of the Royal Society. The centre of the debate is about the fact that publicly funded research is eventually made proprietary because the copyright is assigned to Read more…