> Concerning the U.S. notion that public financing leads to non-copyrighted
> material, does not the U.S. Govt fund the medium we are now using? Is there
I would not claim that public funding leads to non-copyrighted material as
that might suggest that academics working at public universities could not
copyright their own work. In the particular cases that I was discussing
the materials were in the public domain and I got the idea from the people
I was corresponding with that this was tied in some way to the issue of
public funding. Public funding here is probably shorthand for some complex
notions concerning openness and accountability, which leads to the issue
that I was interested in exploring: what cultural differences are there
between the U.S. and U.K., for example, that affect the extent to which
materials are made available.
Michael
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Michael Barlow, Department of Linguistics, Rice University
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