a study that explains why the copyright system is broken and must be radically reformed.
"Copyright, originally conceived as a tool to protect the author and to provide incentives for him or her to create for the benefit of society, is nowadays more and more perceived as an instrument to the advantage of 'large, impersonal and unlovable corporations'. ... Copyright is increasingly perceived as a right to sanction and punish that prevents the free flow of information and access to knowledge or cultural participation, not as a right that has positive effects for the development of society." (p 85)
expertkonferens i maj i Frankrike följde upp FNs Farida Shahids FN-rapport. Bl a slogs fast att copyright inte är en mänsklig rättighet
A recent report entitled “copyright policy and the right to science and culture,” presented at the 28th session of the Human Right Council in March 2015 by UN Special Rapporteur Farida Shaheed shed some light on this debate, however. Her report then attracted attention in the European arena in the context of the ongoing copyright reform. In this context, an international group of experts recently commented on it at the University of Strasbourg Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI).
In the report, the right to science and culture refers to Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
In addition, “the human right to protection of authorship requires that copyright policy … ensure that authors benefit materially,” said the report. On this ground, the experts rejected the assumption that stronger copyright protection advances the authors’ material interests and drew an important distinction between human authors and corporate rights holders.
FOSS ILS in Academic Libraries. A map of academic libraries using a FOSS ILS. Data from http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ - Koha (yellow) - Evergreen (green) - OPALS (purple) - NewGenLib (red)
FOSS ILS in Public Libraries A map of public libraries using a FOSS ILS. Data from http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ I've used a single entry for each consortium / multi-library system, and indicated how many libraries are in each where possibl
Wikipedia: "According to the Settlement Agreement, the Registry will own and maintain a rights information database for all books (and parts of books) covered by the Agreement and their authors and publishers. It will also resolve disputes between rightsh
"Rolf Källman, tillträdande (1 sept.) chef för samordningssekretariatet för digitalisering, talar 34 minuter in i filmen om vikten av öppenhet och frihet, tydlig uppmärkning genom användandet av Creative Commons-licenser, med mera. Detta reformarbete ska
Balzac milite aussi pour le respect des écrivains. Dans sa « lettre aux écrivains du xixe siècle », il les exhorte à régner sur l’Europe par la pensée plutôt que par les armes, en leur rappelant que le fruit de leurs écrits rapporte des sommes énormes dont ils ne bénéficient pas. « La loi protège la terre ; elle protège la maison du prolétaire qui a sué ; elle confisque l'ouvrage du poète qui a pensé (…)64. » Il sera finalement entendu. En 1838, avec notamment Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Frédéric Soulié et George Sand, il fonde la Société des gens de lettres (actuellement sise en l’hôtel de Massa, rue Saint-Jacques à Paris), association d’auteurs destinée à défendre le droit moral, les intérêts patrimoniaux et juridiques des auteurs de l’écrit65. Il en deviendra le président en 1839. Son action, raillée par Sainte-Beuve qui ridiculisait « ce compagnonnage ouvrier et ces maréchaux de France de la littérature qui offrent à l’exploitation une certaine surface commerciale66. », aura dans le futur un soutien important : Émile Zola, qui poursuivra la tâche
1. The term of copyright protection should be reduced. 2. Any change to the scope of copyright protection (including any new definition of protectable subject-matter or expansion of exclusive rights) needs to take into account. 3. When material is deemed to fall in the structural Public Domain in its country of origin, the material should be recognized as part of the structural Public Domain in all other countries of the world. 4. Any false or misleading attempt to misappropriate Public Domain material must be legally punished. 5. No other intellectual property right must be used to reconstitute exclusivity over Public Domain material. 6. There must be a practical and effective path to make available 'orphan works' and published works that are no longer commercially available (such as out-of-print works) for re-use by society. 7. Cultural heritage institutions should take upon themselves a special role in the effective labeling and preserving of Public Domain works. 8. There must be no legal obstacles that prevent the voluntary sharing of works or the dedication of works to the Public Domain. 9. Personal non-commercial uses of protected works must generally be made possible, for which alternative modes of remuneration for the author must be explored.
Thomas Gramstads artikel i Bok og Bibliotek 7.5.2013: "Antallet og omfanget av rettighetene som inngår under Opphavsrett er sterkt økende. Hvorfor følger det ikke noen plikter med disse rettighetene, slik det gjør for alle andre typer rettigheter?"
Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning 3 May, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment.
Milton Mueller: " The case for freedom of information, I argue, must be grounded in a political commitment to liberalism; i.e., individual freedom of action, not in an ethical obligation to share software or information as such."
Bob Pasnau, University of Colorado (‘In medias’ aspires to assemble in one place the latest information pertaining to scholars of medieval philosophy. This blog will avoid rants and philosophical musings, confining itself itself to news and notes of general interest to medievalists.) on library ebooks from Oxford University Press. copyfight