In den USA verklagen mehrere große Verlage das Internet Archive, weil sie ihre Urheberrechte verletzt sehen. Das bedroht die Existenz des digitalen Archivs und kann neue Konflikte zwischen Verlagen und Bibliotheken um digitale Ausleihen schüren.
Bei urheberrechtlichen Themen ist häufig von „Copyright“ die Rede. Doch gibt es zwischen dem Urheberrecht, wie man es in Deutschland kennt, und dem angloamerikanischen Copyright wichtige Unterschiede. Dieser Artikel zeigt einige davon auf, zum Beispiel in Sachen Urheberpersönlichkeitsrecht und Copyright-Vermerken.
Economics from the Top Down is now officially in the Creative Commons.
Zwei US-Musiker stellen Milliarden algorithmisch erzeugte Pop-Melodien ins Internet und geben sie mit der „Public Domain Mark“ für immer frei. Ihre Ausgangspunkte waren gerichtliche Streits von Popstars um kurze Tonfolgen. Das spektakuläre Projekt heißt „All the Music“. Damien Riehl, US-amerikanischer Musiker und Jurist, stellte es vor rund vier Wochen bei einer TED-Konferenz in Minneapolis vor.
This morning, upon learning of the newly negotiated NAFTA or as it seems to be called now USMCA, I sent the following letter to ministers of the current Canadian government. I appreciate the very difficult and complex work involved in negotiating the new version of NAFTA with the USA and Mexico.
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A post by on the Plaza blog Expanded access to images in the Biodiversity Literature Repository has prompted me to write up a little toy I created earlier this week. The Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) is a repository of taxonomic papers hosted by Zenodo. Where possible Plazi have extracted individual images and added those to the BLR, even if the article itself is not open access.
Back in February last year, I had the privilege of giving one of the talks in the University of Manchester’s PGCert course “Open Knowledge in Higher Education”. I took the subject “Should science always be open?” My plan was to give an extended version of a talk I’d given previously at ESOF 2014.
Long time readers may remember the stupid contortions I had to go through in order to avoid giving the Geological Society copyright in my 2010 paper about the history of sauropod research, and how the Geol. Soc. nevertheless included a fraudulent claim of copyright ownership in the published version. The way I left it back in 2010, my wife, Fiona, was the copyright holder.
Kew has released a new report today, entitled the State of the World's Plants, complete with it's own web site https://stateoftheworldsplants.com. Its aim: This is, of course, a laudable goal, and a lot of work has gone into this report, and yet there are some things about the report that I find very frustrating. PDF but no ePub It's nice to have an interactive web site as well as a glossy PDF, but why restrict yourself to a PDF?