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Title: The Law as Cyber Infrastructure
Authors: Fitzgerald, Brian
Pappalardo, Kylie
Keywords: eResearch
Open access movement
Intstitutional and Legal frameworks
Issue Date: 2008
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Citation: Fitzgerald, Brian, ed. Legal Framework for E-Research: Realising the Potential. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008.
Abstract: In almost everything we do, the law is present. However, we know that strict adherence to the law is not always observed for a variety of pragmatic reasons. Nevertheless, we also understand that we ignore the law at our own risk and sometimes we will suffer a consequence. In the realm of collaborative endeavour through networked cyberinfrastructure we know the law is not too far away. But we also know that a paranoid obsession with it will cause inefficiency and stifle the true spirit of research. The key for the lawyers is to understand and implement a legal framework that can work with the power of the technology to disseminate knowledge in such a way that it does not seem a barrier. This is difficult in any universal sense but not totally impossible. In this article, we will show how the law is responding as a positive agent to facilitate the sharing of knowledge in the cyberinfrastructure world.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2674
ISBN: 9781920898939
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