A petition for the Obama administration to oppose the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699) is up at the White House's We the People website.
Here's an excerpt:
HR 3699, the Research Works Act will be detrimental to the free flow of scientific information that was created using Federal funds. It is an attempt to put federally funded scientific information behind pay-walls, and confer the ownership of the information to a private entity. This is an affront to open government and open access to information created using public funds.
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