Creative Commons and Science Commons Announce Open Access Law Program

Thanks to the ublaw phoenix blog, 6/14/2005,
for this announcement from Creative Commons:

"Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides
flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, and
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons that
works to encourage sharing of scientific and academic
knowledge, today unveiled their Open Access Law
Program. The Program is designed to make legal
scholarship “open access,” that is freely available online
to everyone, without undue copyright and licensing
restrictions....

Staff at Science Commons’ offices in Boston worked with
program leads Professor Dan Hunter of the Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania and Professor Mike Carroll of
Villanova Law School, who serves on the Board of Creative
Commons, to produce the Principles and the Agreement.

Professor Hunter said 'Open access to law articles is an
idea whose time has come. All of the players in US
scholarly legal journal publishing have an interest in
the widest possible audience for their material. The
authors benefit, the journals benefit, and law schools
benefit. And more importantly, the public benefits.
Everyone walks away a winner.'"