Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Access

Marianne Renkema, Wageningen UR Library

February 1, 2010

The “Copyright Landscape”

SURF Foundation/JISC

Copyright

Also called author’s right or auteursrechten Legal protection of literary or artistic work

(Dutch law: a work of science, literature or art)

You are not allowed to copy or adapt the material without permission

Reasons for copyright law: Stimulation of creativity and publishing of work Protection of author regarding commercial and fair

use

Criteria for obtaining copyright

Work has to be original No protection of ideas or information, but of

the expression of it Facts or theories are not protected (Work needs to be recorded)

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886)

Three basic principles national treatment foreign and native authors have the same

rights

“automatic” protection no registration required

“independence” of protection what law is effective depends on where you are, not on country of origin

Berne convention: Exclusive rights of authorization the right to translate, the right to make adaptations and arrangements of the

work, the right to perform in public dramatic, dramatico-

musical and musical works, the right to recite in public literary works, the right to communicate to the public the

performance of such works, the right to broadcast, the right to make reproductions in any manner or form, the right to use the work as a basis for an audiovisual

work, and the right to reproduce, distribute, perform in public or communicate to the public that audiovisual work

Berne convention: Moral or personality rights

the right to claim authorship of the work the right to object to any mutilation or

deformation of the work which would damage the author’s honor or reputation.

Berne convention: Minimum duration

Until 50 years after author’s death Until 50 years after publication (anonymous

works) Until 50 years after publication/release

(audiovisual works) Until 25 years after creation (applied art,

photographs)

Other copyright conventions

Universal Copyright Convention (1952) WTO – TRIPS (Agreement on Trade-Related

Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) WIPO Copyright Treaty (1996)

Legislation per country/region

Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA)http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/Access to all legislation on intellectual property per

country or region

Crews KD, Ramos J. (2006) Comparitive analysis of World Copyright Law: Issues for University Scholarship.http://copyright.surf.nl/copyright/files/

International_Comparative_Chart_Zwolle_III_rev071306.pdf

Automatic protection

Formal registration of copyright is not necessary, but can give additional benefits in some countries (e.g. USA)

A copyright notice is not required, but it… Makes clear that the work is copyright protected Shows who the copyright owner isSo, it is strongly advised to give it!

Copyright notice

Consists of the word copyright or the symbol © the year of first publication the name of the copyright owner

Examples: Copyright 2010, John Johnson© John Johnson 2010

In the Netherlands you write:“dit werk is auteursrechtelijk beschermd”

Copyright owner

Initially: Author Supervisor Employer of the author

A copyright can be partly or completely sold, given away, waived or inherited Written and signed document License for some rights

Question 1

Are you allowed to make a copy of a research paper for personal use?

Yes No

Question 2

Is a lecturer allowed to make copies of a research paper for distribution among his or her students?

Yes No

Question 3

Is a librarian allowed to make a copy of a research paper for you?

Yes No

Question 4

Do libraries have to pay a lending remuneration?

Yes No

Question 5

Who owns copyright of a MSc thesis? … and of a PhD thesis?

Question 6

Does public availability of a work on internet mean that it is in the public domain (i.e. not copyright protected anymore)?

Question 7

Is plagiarism the same as violating copyright?

Reasons for legal uncertainty

Use of undefined words: original, substantial, reasonable

New situations Agreements between stakeholders

Verdicts in law cases

So, it is a matter of risk management when you deal with copyright

ReadersStichting PRO Short pieces:

Compensation paid in advance Not necessary to ask for permission Lecturer has to send (part of) reader to Stichting PRO

Long work: Lecturer has to ask copyright owner for permission

directly or via Stichting PRO

Library Some licenses with publishers allow for inclusion of

articles in readers, see http://library.wur.nl/copyright/

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/videos/wanna-work-together

Creative Commons

From “All rights reserved” to “Some rights reserved”

AttributionShare alikeNon-commercialNo derivative works

Six licenses:

Public domain

= No copyright on the work

Copyright is expired All law text or jurisdiction (Netherlands) or

government publications (USA) The author waived the copyright (you keep

some moral rights) CC0 – ‘No rights reserved’ license Written statement by the author

Science Commons

Access to publications Material transfer agreements Exchange of data Databases Patents Software

Introduction to Science Commons by Wilbanks and Boyle (2006) http://www.sciencecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceCommons_Concept_Paper.pdf

Open Access to Knowledge

Berlin Declaration (2003)http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/

berlin_declaration.pdf

Open Access Publishing

Online free articles (and datasets) Golden road open access with open access journals

Green road open access through repositories and/or self-archiving

http://www.openaccess.nl

Open Access Journals (Golden Road)

Traditional business model Researcher writes paper and transfers copyright to publisher Publisher publishes the paper in a subscription based journal Researcher is restricted in re-using the paper for other

purposes Access to the paper is limited

Open Access model Author pays publisher to publish a paper Author keeps copyright Access to paper free

Author-paysmodel

Wageningen UR library has an Open Access fund

NWO just started a fund

UKB-Springer Open Choice dealNo fee for OA

Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/

Repositories (Green road)

Institutional repositories NARCIS http://www.narcis.info/index HBO Kennisbank http://www.hbo-kennisbank.nl

Subject repositories Example: ArXiv.org

Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org

Wageningen University repository Wageningen Yield http://library.wur.nl/way

Online PhD theses, since September 2002 Some with embargo of 6 months

Reports Abstracts, conference papers Journal articles

Pre-prints (version before peer review) Post-prints (version after peer review) Final version (published version)

What is allowed?

Open Access articles can be archived without restriction (from an author’s point of view)

For all other journal articles it depends on what you agreed with the Publisher Copyright Transfer Agreement SHERPA/RoMEO website

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Alternatives for the Copyright Transfer Agreement Author rights, your rights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWZ_ZYbAIyg&feature=player_embedded#

SURF Foundation: License to Publish Publisher can publish the paper and make money with it Author keeps copyright Delayed access in repositories

SURF Foundation/JISC: Copyright Toolbox http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/

The “Copyright Landscape”

Copyright in higher education: http://www.surffoundation.nl/Auteursrechten/en/Pages/Default.aspx

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bap024