<div dir="ltr"><div style><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This email is FAO anyone who has been following the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz (young advocate of open internet who helped create RSS, was an early technical code developer for Creative Commons licences & co-founder of reddit... amongst other things)...</font></span></div>
<div style><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#333333"><span style="line-height:18px">While it cannot totally be attributed to it, there can be little doubt that pressure from a serious copyright case had some bearing on his state of mind. </span></font></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Whatever your view on copyright law, it certainly shouldn't be responsible for a person's untimely death.</font></span></div>
<div style><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.98611068725586px">JSTOR (</span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.98611068725586px">a digital academic library and </span><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.98611068725586px">the alleged victim) had decided not to pursue this matter, </span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.98611068725586px">but this did not stop the US Attorney's Office from prosecuting. </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#333333"><span style="line-height:18px">You can read more on the </span><span style="line-height:17.98611068725586px">circumstances</span><span style="line-height:18px"> around the case and Aaron's death here: </span></font></font><a href="http://elliottbledsoe.com/2013/01/rip-aaron-swartz" target="_blank" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://elliottbledsoe.com/2013/01/rip-aaron-swartz</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">. </font></span></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px">My friend Elliott Bledsoe and I have today <b>published an open letter to propose that JSTOR rename their new free access accounts program</b></span><font color="#333333"><span style="line-height:17.98611068725586px"><b> </b></span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><b>in his memory</b>. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:17.98611068725586px">What would be a simple thing to implement for them would have powerful resonance in a community coming to terms with this tragic loss.</span></font></div>
<div style><span style="line-height:17.98611068725586px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.98611068725586px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><b>Please sign/comment/share if you agree with this suggestion: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reallybigroadtrip/posts/456156304432261">https://www.facebook.com/reallybigroadtrip/posts/456156304432261</a> or <a href="http://www.reallybigroadtrip.com/jstor-open-letter">http://www.reallybigroadtrip.com/jstor-open-letter</a></span><br>
</font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">or RT this tweet:</font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>we would love to see @jstor's new free accounts commemorate #aaronswartz. sign/share if you agree: <a href="http://rbrt.cc/VW7PTF">http://rbrt.cc/VW7PTF</a> </i></font></div>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Warmest thanks from your fellow open culture geeks,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Fee (<a href="http://twitter.com/feesable">@feesable</a>) & Elliott (<a href="http://twitter.com/elliottbledsoe">@elliottbledsoe</a>)</font></div>
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</span></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div><br></div><div>Fee Plumley</div><div><br></div><div><b>>> Houston, we have a bus! Read the <a href="http://www.reallybigroadtrip.com/2012/11/houston-we-have-a-bus/" target="_blank">exquisite story</a> behind this find</b><b> :) </b><b><<</b></div>
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