Lex Ferenda

Italian publisher Polimetrica has published a book (link is to downloadable PDF) on open access issues, especially in relation to public policy. It’s worth a read. Appropriately, the book itself has a good licence:

“Polimetrica License B” gives anyone the possibility to distribute the contents of the work, provided that the authors of the work and the publisher are always recognised and mentioned. It does not allow use of the contents of the work for commercial purposes or for profit. Polimetrica Publisher has the exclusive right to publish and sell the contents of the work in paper and electronic format and by any other means of publication. Additional rights on the contents of the work are the author’s property.

Via Maman Poulet (who I haven’t seen in years, and am delighted to see is a much better and more reliable blogger than I) comes good news of a campaign, under the leadership of support network BelongTo and the Equality Authority. “Homophobic Bullying Is Not Acceptable In Our School” is the message; the headline is one of four (one for she, one for he, and the same again in Irish) as follows:

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how many schools put up the poster, and how many object - or worse still, object on ‘moral’ grounds (bullying presumably being better than polluting the impressionable minds of confused youth). And whether the schools that display the poster lose a little of their sillyness over things like Debs events and the general assumption that 100% of their pupils are 100% hetero. But it’s a positive move (when I showed someone the campaign, their response was ‘it will never work in Ireland’, assuming that something like this was obviously a British campaign!), and helped along the way by a launch from Síle de Valera (on the way out the door, but still a Junior Minister!).

(Edited with thanks to tipster, below)