universities, copyright, open access, licensing

(HOW) Should we share research?

Mathias Klang @klang67

Copyright – Open Access – Licensing

WHY?

Why?

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire

Technology 300 years ago…

Copyright is all about fixation

Fixation is all about

technology & social norms

Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media

TECHNOLOGY controls how and what we interact, create & THINK

AFFORDANCESspot the ethical dilemma?

STATUTE OF ANNE (1710)

Wheras printers, booksellers, and other persons, have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing... books, and other writings, without the

consent of the authors... to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families: For preventing therefore such

practices for the future, and for the encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books…

Expanding rights

Oscar Wilde nr 18 av Napoleon Sarony

“entirely from his own mental conception, to which he gave visible form” ”useful, new, harmonious, characteristic, and graceful picture.”

THE SOCIAL

CENTURY

User generated content

Monopolies in copying & delivery systems

Lag (1960) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk

LAG (1960) OM UPPHOVSRÄTT TILL LITTERÄRA OCH KONSTNÄRLIGA VERK

dead TRee as NORM

What’s protected?

Almost everything!

”VERKSHÖJD” BIRD RED SLICE by Koko (1984)

idea/expression dichotomy

Donald Duck by Walt Disney Arne Anka av Charlie Christensen

Ludicrously brief history of computers

hollerith

Generation 3 (1964-72)

The digital is the original & everything is copy

Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

Everything is miscellaneous

91 % Access to the Internet at home83 % Access to broadband at home7 % Never used a computer

Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

two dominant truths

1. No cash, No Creation

2. Everything Is property

Two incredible & strange ideas… that WORKED

STALLMAN PROVED EMPIRICALLY THAT ECONOMIC RETURNS WERE NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION…

But geeks are different?

WALES PROVED STALLMAN’S IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS

Yet we still cling to the analogue myths.

Property in university

Open access

Gold & Green Open Access

Gold: article published in journal is, either totally or to some extent, freely accessible

Green: self-archiving of author’s work

Open Access

Laakso et al. (2011)

Dr. Henry Otgaar, Forensic Psychology section, Maastricht University

Open Access

Dr. Henry Otgaar, Forensic Psychology section, Maastricht University

Downloads are not citations

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Four limitations

How to License

More informationwww.iis.se/docs/copyright_copyleft.pdf

Why license?

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

Normalizing the abnormal

This is not a phone

Always online

“My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.”

Prof. Susan Greenfield

Performance lifestyle

My awesome coffee

Can twitter help an academic?

Old stupidity or new intelligence?

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another…we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. – A bee doubtless would [use] … instincts as a criteria.

Charles Darwin

My media

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

Top ten

Quick answersReality checkFinding new informationSupportAugmenting Conferences & extending conversationsTalking to non academicsInfo flows - amazing what I missed beforeGlobal community of narrow mindsShameless self promotionMapping an international space

My people, my crowd

Spreading for fame, bibliometrics & finding others

Teaching outside the classroom

Blogging as training

Blogging as territorial marking

Blogging as satisfaction (not always good)

Egostroke

Time heavy, or is it? (RoI)

Communications stress

Insomnia is not lonely

Why Share?

Sharing is caring

Swedish heritage board

Two years later

OMG!!!OMG!!!

Does it work?License or contractDifferent jurisdictions?

Case law

Germany 2011

Israel 2011: TA 3560/09, 3561/09, Avi Re'uveni v. Mapa inc.

Belgium 2010: 09-1684-A (Lichôdmapwa v. L'asbl Festival de Theatre de Spa)

The Netherlands, 2006: Curry v. Audax

Spain 2006: SGAE v. Fernandez

Resources

AUDIO

http://artistserver.com/http://ccmixter.org/http://free-loops.com/http://www.freesound.org/http://www.jamendo.com/en/http://www.jamglue.com/http://www.soundclick.com/http://www.tribeofnoise.com/http://librivox.org/

BILDER

http://animalphotos.info/a/http://carpictures.cc/cars/photo/http://www.compfight.com/http://creativity103.com/http://flickr.com/creativecommons/http://www.geograph.org.uk/http://photoeverywhere.co.uk/http://en.sevenload.com/

TEXT

http://www.intratext.com/http://www.travellerspoint.com/http://www.unearthtravel.com/http://www.wisdomcommons.org/http://wikipedia.org

VIDEO

http://blip.tv/http://www.ourmedia.org/

http://one.revver.com/http://youtube.com

Individualconvenience

Only 30 kg

Limitless 303 grams

Should technology

make us think?

Thank you.

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

www.digital-rights.net

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