Open and Libraries

Ellyssa Kroski

What’s the big deal about Open?

Over half of all websites worldwide are hosted by the Open-Source Apache Web Server - Netcraft September 2008 Web Server Survey

An estimated 29 million people use Linux, an Open Source operating system - Linux Counter (2005)

Open Source Software represents a 23% share of the software market in the US and Europe - 2007 Gartner Open Source Summit

There are over 135,000 Open Source Software applications available today.

"As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."

- Benjamin Franklin

“ He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

- Thomas Jefferson

The Theory of Relativity is on YouTube

The Theory of Evolution is on iTunes

31% of MIT freshmen knew about MIT OCW before applying… – and it was a significant influence in their decision for 35% of them.

“ Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.”

- Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia topped 10 million articles in 2008

The National Institute of Health mandated in December 2007 that all funded researchers make their publications openly accessible on the Web.

In January 791 universities in 46 European countries unanimously voted for Open Access mandates

Harvard faculty unanimously voted in February 2008 to make their scholarly articles openly available to the public online.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

- Sir Isaac Newton

Copyright

Intended for public good to encourage creativity

Now 70 years minimum

Up to 120 years

Terms of copyright have been extended 11 times over last 40 years

1998 – Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) added 20 years to term

No new works will enter the public domain until 2018

Poems of Emily Dickinson – 2050

Compositions of George Gershwin – 2019-2030

"Just at the time that technology is enabling all sorts of new creativity, to build on this material and do stuff with it, the law is getting in the way and locking it up." - Lawrence Lessig.