« Can we think of a Copyright system that provides equitable compensation to all involved parties, while maximising access to scientific resources and ensuring sustainable value production? Is the solution within the existing Copyright system or shall we look outside of it? Is Copyright reform attainable, and if yes, should it…
« Information is a critical resource for personal, economic and social development. Libraries and archives are the primary access point to information for individuals and communities with much of the information protected by copyright or licence terms. In this complex legal environment, librarians and information professionals operate at the fulcrum of…
« Copyright is mainly about how to provide adequate control for authors over their works. The process of creation and distribution of copyrighted works, the type and functioning of their markets and related platforms have fundamentally changed in so many different ways. Also, the specific content of control provided to authors…
« This study analyses the role that EU copyright rules play in enabling or hindering access to and re-use of scientific publications, including through Open Access. It finds its starting point in the connected but distinct notions of access and re-use. The study examines the possibilities for re-use enabled by…
« EU legislation in the field of copyright, related rights and sui generis database rights can have a deep impact on access to data resources for scientific research and the availability of data resulting from publicly funded research. To establish a copyright and related rights framework that offers appropriate data access…
« Imagine this scenario. You’ve written an article and want to make it Open Access (OA). To do this, you submit it to a journal that enables gold OA, i.e. the publisher makes the article immediately OA on publication. You decide to apply a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence to your…
Learn more the rights retention policies that enable authors to exercise the rights they automatically own
« (…) organized by EIFL and cOAlition S, Sally Rumsey and Johan Rooryck of cOAlition S discuss rights retention policies that enable authors to exercise the rights they automatically own so they can use their…
« Institutional repositories were created to collect, preserve, and make available the academic institution’s scientific output. The purpose of this study is to investigate and illustrate how Greek academic libraries with institutional repositories deal with copyright challenges. The study aims to identify and describe if institutional repository managers apply a certain…
« This Article categorizes the world’s copyright laws according to the degree to which they provide exceptions to copyright exclusivity for research uses. We classify countries based on the degree to which they have a research exception in their law that is sufficiently open to be able to permit reproduction and…
« The question of who owns the copyright to scientific publications, such as journal articles, is complex and contested. Jenice Jean Goveas looks at the issue and considers some of the recent initiatives designed to support authors to retain rights to their published work.
Copyright transfer – Why is it such…
