Phil Malone has posted a paper evaluating copyright licensing policy at private foundations. The report found that some foundations are encouraging open licensing, while others are hesitant. From the executive summary:
Private foundations fund and support the creation of a wide range of work products, ranging from books, articles, reports, and research summaries to educational materials and textbooks to photographs, works of visual art, films, videos, and musical compositions and recordings to software code, computer programs and technical systems to many, many others. Foundations seek to achieve the most impact and the greatest good with the money they invest. Doing so often depends on ensuring the broadest dissemination and greatest, most productive and innovative use, reuse and redistribution of the many works they support. …
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link.
