The Open Humanities Press (OHP) has joined forces with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publications Office (SPO) to start up a series of open access monographs:

• New Metaphysics
• Critical Climate Change
• Global Conversations
• Unidentified Theoretical Objects

and my favorite…

• Liquid Books

According to the site, Liquid Books will be

“a series of experimental digital books published under the conditions of both open editing and free content. As such, you are free to annotate, tag, edit, add to, remix, reformat, reversion, reinvent and reuse any of the books in the series – and what’s more you are encouraged to do so. The most interesting results of such open editing and writing… will be ‘frozen’ and published by OHP”

This looks to be a great mix of scholarly publishing combined with open access, with some remixing thrown into the vat!  Also check out the press release (pdf).

thanks to Karen Schneiderman for the link

The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has a PDF guide available for download titled Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video.

To both illustrate and promote the practices, they have just released a video called Remix Culture : Fair Use is Your Friend.

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found via Lessig 2.0