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> Open-ish. Aka closed :)
It's like a box on a shelf you can't reach. It's not locked. It's not even closed. If you squint, you can guess what's inside. But it's in a box. And it's up there. And you have to wait for someone to bring a ladder.
Where is Obama files? In fact this seems like a good idea for a huge website for all high level political figures.
The problem is that much of it is difficult to collate. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php is a good start for the Congressional record online, but presidential records and judicial records often end up all over the place.
Ideally the LOC would provide a better online toolkit for this stuff, but you know, good enough for government work.
"The Zuckerberg Files is an open-access public archive" ... "Scholars wishing to gain access to the full archive should email access@zuckerbergfiles.org with their name, affiliation, and a brief description of the research project or purpose for which the materials will be put." Open-ish.
I had the same reaction: to me they were contradicting themselves in no more than two sentences. Then I read on and followed links: http://zuckerbergfiles.org/?page_id=41 So this is indeed a copyright issue. Like all copyright issues, bittorrent is the answer.
The real answer is changing the laws; torrents are a work-around for the currently broken system, at best.
You, too, could pull all these works together without arranging the rights, and you could probably make a fair use argument for it. However, I guess they're saying that they aren't going to re-transmit the archive in bulk. It is insinuated that it might run astray of fair use to do so.
"The Zuckerberg Files is an open-access public archive" ... "Scholars wishing to gain access to the full archive should email access@zuckerbergfiles.org with their name, affiliation, and a brief description of the research project or purpose for which the materials will be put." Open-ish.
I'm not really sure I understand their argument for restricting access. I'm not into the academic environment (and this might be one of the reasons) but this at first looked something targeted at a wider audience than "scholars". Also, their quote mentions copyrighted work. A) is this material copyrighted? B) would be legal to open access - with passwords - to a "organized database of copyrighted material"?