Copyright Versus Open Access

Author : Marc Scheufen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319127392

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Copyright Versus Open Access by Marc Scheufen Pdf

This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective. The focus is on the question whether a copyright regime or an open access regime is better suited to the norms and organizational structure in a purely global science community. The book undertakes a thorough economic analysis of the academic journal market and showcases consequences of a regime change. It also takes account of the Digital Divide debate, reflecting issues in developing countries. Finally, a comprehensive analysis of legal action in the light of international Intellectual Property (IP) agreements offers prospects on the future of academic publishing.

Author : Lexi Rubow,Brianna Schofield,Rachael Shen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:950467642

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Understanding Open Access by Lexi Rubow,Brianna Schofield,Rachael Shen Pdf

Author : Michael Geist
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780776620848

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The Copyright Pentalogy by Michael Geist Pdf

In the summer of 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada issued rulings on five copyright cases in a single day. The cases represent a seismic shift in Canadian copyright law, with the Court providing an unequivocal affirmation that copyright exceptions such as fair dealing should be treated as users’ rights, while emphasizing the need for a technology neutral approach to copyright law. The Court’s decisions, which were quickly dubbed the “copyright pentalogy,” included no fees for song previews on services such as iTunes, no additional payment for music included in downloaded video games, and that copying materials for instructional purposes may qualify as fair dealing. The Canadian copyright community soon looked beyond the cases and their litigants and began to debate the larger implications of the decisions. Several issues quickly emerged. This book represents an effort by some of Canada’s leading copyright scholars to begin the process of examining the long-term implications of the copyright pentalogy. The diversity of contributors ensures an equally diverse view on these five cases, contributions are grouped into five parts. Part 1 features three chapters on the standard of review in the courts. Part 2 examines the fair dealing implications of the copyright pentalogy, with five chapters on the evolution of fair dealing and its likely interpretation in the years ahead. Part 3 contains two chapters on technological neutrality, which the Court established as a foundational principle of copyright law. The scope of copyright is assessed in Part 4 with two chapters that canvas the exclusive rights under the copyright and the establishment of new “right” associated with user-generated content. Part 5 features two chapters on copyright collective management and its future in the aftermath of the Court’s decisions. This volume represents the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the five rulings. Edited by Professor Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, the volume includes contributions from experts across Canada. This indispensable volume identifies the key aspects of the Court's decisions and considers the implications for the future of copyright law in Canada.

Author : Peter Suber
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262517638

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Open Access by Peter Suber Pdf

A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

Author : Koutras, Nikos
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799811336

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Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories by Koutras, Nikos Pdf

In today’s modern age where information is constantly being shared, intellectual property and protection remains a crucial aspect in economic development. Open access has emerged as a cutting-edge tool that allows writers and authors to share their work freely while still holding protection and security over it. With technology playing a crucial role in economic growth, open access practices could be a key contributor in the innovation and development of information and public policy. What researchers need is a comprehensive approach to the concept of open access practice, its foundations, and current status. Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of open access publishing practices in the digital age and applications within scientific and academic research. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as copyright protection, social justice, and European Copyright Framework, this book is ideally designed for researchers, scientists, policymakers, librarians, IT specialists, authors, publishers, academicians, and students seeking current research on the advancement of intellectual property rights in today’s technologically driven world.

Author : Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780814728963

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Planned Obsolescence by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Pdf

Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changeso especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimediaonecessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin.Confronting a change-averse academy, she insists that before we can successfully change the systems through which we disseminate research, scholars must re-evaluate their ways of workingohow they research, write, and reviewowhile administrators must reconsider the purposes of publishing and the role it plays within the university. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores all of these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain vibrant and relevant in the digital future.

Author : Swan, Alma,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789230010522

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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access by Swan, Alma,UNESCO Pdf

UNESCO issued this publication to demystify the concept of open access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Its focus is on scientific research from peer-reviewed journal articles. Building capacities in Member States for Open Access is a necessary but not sufficient condition for promotion of the concept. Creating an enabling policy environment for OA is therefore a priority. This publication will serve the needs of OA policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level. The overall objective of the Policy Guidelines is to promote Open Access in Member States by facilitating understanding of all relevant issues related to Open Access. The guidelines are not prescriptive in nature, but are suggestive to facilitate knowledge-based decision-making to adopt OA policies and strengthen national research systems.

Author : Ronan Deazley,Martin Kretschmer,Lionel Bently
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781906924188

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Privilege and Property by Ronan Deazley,Martin Kretschmer,Lionel Bently Pdf

What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership - of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The essays reach back to the very material world of craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in his 1644 Areopagitica speech 'For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing', accuses the English parliament of having been deceived by the 'fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling' (i.e. the London Stationers' Company). Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the printing press in the North American colonies as a provincial and somewhat crude version of European precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789, the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege system. Contributions also address the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts. These essays provide essential reading for anybody interested in copyright, intellectual history and current public policy choices in intellectual property. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.org.

Author : Martin Paul Eve,Jonathan Gray
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262362863

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Reassembling Scholarly Communications by Martin Paul Eve,Jonathan Gray Pdf

A range of perspectives on the complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications of opening research and scholarship through digital technologies. The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-reviewed research work--to use the power of the internet to duplicate material at an infinitesimal cost-per-copy. In this volume, contributors show that open access does not exist in a technological vacuum; there are complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications for opening research through digital technologies. The contributors examine open access across spans of colonial legacies, knowledge frameworks, publics and politics, archives and digital preservation, infrastructures and platforms, and global communities.

Author : Martin Paul Eve
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781316195734

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Open Access and the Humanities by Martin Paul Eve Pdf

If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of 'pay-to-say' publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversies for open access, specifically in the humanities. Broaching practical elements alongside economic histories, open licensing, monographs and funder policies, this book is a must-read for both those new to ideas about open-access scholarly communications and those with an already keen interest in the latest developments for the humanities. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Books Online.

Author : John Willinsky
Publisher : Digital Libraries and Electron
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39076002888407

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The Access Principle by John Willinsky Pdf

Questions about access to scholarship have always raged. The great libraries of the past stood as arguments for increasing access. John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story - online open access publishing by scholarly journals and makes a case for open access as a public good.

Author : Mishra, Sanjaya,Das, Anup Kumar
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231000836

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Sharing your work in open access by Mishra, Sanjaya,Das, Anup Kumar Pdf

Traducción parcial de la Introducción: "Este es el último módulo del curso sobre acceso abierto para investigadores. Se han visto diferentes cuestiones en torno al concepto de acceso abierto, su historia, sus ventajas, iniciativas, derechos de autor y licencias, y su impacto en el contexto de la comunicación académica. En este módulo con sólo dos unidades, tiene como objetivo ayudar al investigador a compartir su trabajo en acceso abierto en repositorios y revistas OA. El módulo tiene como objetivo: - Comprender el proceso de publicación en la difusión de trabajos académicos; - Elegir las revistas de acceso abierto y repositorios adecuados para el intercambio de resultados de la investigación - Utilizar los medios sociales para promover el trabajo de investigación personal y construir una reputación digital. En la Unidad 1, se discute el proceso de publicación de la investigación en cinco etapas: planificación, preparación, la etapa previa a la publicación, etapa de publicación y el estadio postpublication. Haciendo hincapié en la importancia de los medios sociales para compartir y hacer un trabajo visible a los grupos objetivo. En la Unidad 2, se centra en como compartir la investigación a través de repositorios OA y Revistas. Los diferentes tipos de repositorios para seleccionar y destaca los pasos que un investigador puede considerar incluyendo el depósito en sus propios repositorios institucionales o en repositorios abiertos globales. Esta unidad también ofrece orientación sobre la elección de las revistas de acceso abierto más adecuadas, como la calidad de las publicaciones de OA es a menudo cuestionada". (Trad. Julio Alonso Arévalo. Univ. Salamanca).

Author : Susan M. Bielstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226046396

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Permissions, A Survival Guide by Susan M. Bielstein Pdf

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine legal terms, constantly evolving copyright law, varying interpretations by museums and estates, and despair over the complexity of the whole situation. Here, on a white—not a high—horse, Susan Bielstein offers her decades of experience as an editor working with illustrated books. In doing so, she unsnarls the threads of permissions that have ensnared scholars, critics, and artists for years. Organized as a series of “takes” that range from short sidebars to extended discussions, Permissions, A Survival Guide explores intellectual property law as it pertains to visual imagery. How can you determine whether an artwork is copyrighted? How do you procure a high-quality reproduction of an image? What does “fair use” really mean? Is it ever legitimate to use the work of an artist without permission? Bielstein discusses the many uncertainties that plague writers who work with images in this highly visual age, and she does so based on her years navigating precisely these issues. As an editor who has hired a photographer to shoot an incredibly obscure work in the Italian mountains (a plan that backfired hilariously), who has tried to reason with artists' estates in languages she doesn't speak, and who has spent her time in the archival trenches, she offers a snappy and humane guide to this difficult terrain. Filled with anecdotes, asides, and real courage, Permissions, A Survival Guide is a unique handbook that anyone working in the visual arts will find invaluable, if not indispensable.

Author : Corinne Tan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781787351721

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Regulating Content on Social Media by Corinne Tan Pdf

How are users influenced by social media platforms when they generate content, and does this influence affect users’ compliance with copyright laws? These are pressing questions in today’s internet age, and Regulating Content on Social Media answers them by analysing how the behaviours of social media users are regulated from a copyright perspective. Corinne Tan, an internet governance specialist, compares copyright laws on selected social media platforms, namely Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter and Wikipedia, with other regulatory factors such as the terms of service and the technological features of each platform. This comparison enables her to explore how each platform affects the role copyright laws play in securing compliance from their users. Through a case study detailing the content generative activities undertaken by a hypothetical user named Jane Doe, as well as drawing from empirical studies, the book argues that – in spite of copyright’s purported regulation of certain behaviours – users are 'nudged' by the social media platforms themselves to behave in ways that may be inconsistent with copyright laws. Praise for Regulating Content on Social Media 'This book makes an important contribution to the field of social media and copyright. It tackles the real issue of how social media is designed to encourage users to engage in generative practices, in a sense effectively “seducing” users into practices that involve misuse or infringement of copyright, whilst simultaneously normalising such practices.’ Melissa de Zwart, Dean of Law, Adelaide Law School, Australia "This timely and accessible book examines the regulation of content generative activities across five popular social media platforms – Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter and Wikipedia. Its in-depth, critical and comparative analysis of the platforms' growing efforts to align terms of service and technological features with copyright law should be of great interest to anyone studying the interplay of law and new media." Peter K. Yu, Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University

Author : Denise Troll Covey
Publisher : Digital Library Federation
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781933645308

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Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books by Denise Troll Covey Pdf

"What are the stumbling blocks to digitization? Is copyright law a major barrier? Is it easier to negotiate with some types of publishers than with others? To what extent does the age of the material influence permission decisions? This report, by Denise Troll Covey, principal librarian for special projects at Carnegie Mellon University, responds to many of these questions. It begins with a brief, cogent overview of U.S. copyright laws, licensing practices, and technological developments in publishing that serve as the backdrop for the current environment. It then recounts in detail three efforts undertaken at Carnegie-Mellon University to secure copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books with scholarly content."--CLIR Web site.