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Subject:
Locking down the Feynman Lectures website?
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Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:26:14 -0500
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From: Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:02:24 -0500

1. Caltech made a free website of the classic textbooks "The Feynman
Lectures on Physics"

2. dev in Singapore writes script to put it on his Kindle, puts script
(not the content) on Github

3. DMCA fireworks ensue

http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-dmca-takedown-of-feynman-lectures.html

I think there are interesting questions here for liblicense relating
to the sort of business models that are good or bad practice for open
access resources.


Eric Hellman
President, Gluejar.Inc.
Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
twitter: @gluejar

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