If you are in academia you are probably at least aware of the growing Open Access movement.  I think of it basically as Creative Commons for scholars, and this doesn’t really mesh well with the pre-existing publishing model that scholars and academics have been using for ages. The Internet Archive has full text of the “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”.  It’s short and sweet and strong and well thought.

"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for 
themselves."