“The Perils of Strong Copyright,” a recently completed master's paper by MSLS student Jason Griffey has garnered attention from librarians and others online. After being published via his blog Pattern Recognition, the paper has been mentioned on a number of highly trafficked Web sites, including:

• Librarian.net
• LIS News
• Open Access News
• Confessions of a Mad Librarian
• NonProfit Online News
• BoingBoing, where recent UNC speaker Cory Doctorow described it as "an excellent paper on the tension within the library system between the endorsement on one hand of the Open Access model of scholarly publishing...as being good for librarians and researchers; and on the other hand of the American Library Association's own journals, which are contracted-for and published under restrictive regimes that limit copying and sharing.”

The paper has been forwarded to several library and information science listservs, and Griffey has gotten responses from librarians around the world. He plans to use the feedback to change the paper into an article for an Open Access journal. Check back here later for more news on Griffey's paper.