Hacker News with Generative AI: Public Access

Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research (nih.gov)
I am excited to announce that one of my first actions as NIH Director is pushing the accelerator on policies to make NIH research findings freely and quickly available to the public. The 2024 Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1, 2025.
Copyright Keepers Just Destroyed a Digital Library (jacobin.com)
In a troubling blow to public access, a US appeals court sided with big publishers, erasing half a million books from the Internet Archive’s lending library.
EFF Presses Federal Circuit to Make Patent Case Filings Public (eff.org)
EFF Appeals Order Denying Public Access to Patent Filings (eff.org)
'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public (mongabay.com)