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Copyright and Academic Publishing
Shaping the Future
Kevin L. Smith
Duke University Libraries
Slide2Turn and face the strange
“Changes” and opportunities
Dramatic realignment in academic publishing?
Denied by many publishers
Survey shows faculty satisfaction
Satisfaction may be shallow
Opportunities being missed
What is the role of copyright?
Slide3If the future seems frightening,
The best way to cope is by taking control of it.
Slide4The irony of 1989
In 1989,
CompuServ
made home internet connects possible with a commercial e-mail server
The web was born March 12, 1989, when Tim Berners Lee wrote a proposal on “global hypertext” for CERN
Copyright formalities were finally
eliminated completely.
Slide5Digital has broken copyright
Always makes copies
First sale doesn’t work
Education exceptions less helpful
Contracts determine a lot
Line between commercial and non-commercial is blurred
Remix culture frightens creators
Instant copying & distribution frightens rights holders.
Slide6Making a photocopy-era law fit in the age of Instagram?
Even the Copyright Office is talking about “The Next Great Copyright Act
.
”
Would Congress make
the situation better
or worse?
Slide7Course readings and the GSU lawsuit
Slide8Possible solutions
An expanding interpretation of Fair Use
Courts have been moving in this direction
Lots of flexibility, but little certainty
Scholars retaining rights
Publish in ways that ensure reuse rights
For yourself AND your colleagues
Slide9HathiTrust, Google Books
Here we are seeing that expansive reading of fair use
Purpose is VERY important.
Slide10What can we learn from the elephant?
Courts strongly favor transformative purposes
Fair use is the one place where the law can adapt successfully to new technologies
Fair use supports good teaching & research
Opportunities for transformation
Indexing and access
Digital humanities are a particularly strong case
Slide11Publishing and DH
New projects defy traditional publishing
Dual publication?
Twice the work for same credit?
Looking for new ways to give credit
For a uniquely useful data set
For a pedagogically helpful visualization
For a digital reconstructed document, inscription, site.
Slide12Text and Data Mining
Slide13License provisions for TDM
Access only through approved API.
No download of research corpus.
Explain research to vendor.
Limitations on distribution of “research output.”
Fees?
Slide14What is a publication?
Traditional restriction on what kinds of “making scholarship public” count.
Article & book v. “lesser” publications
Translations, reviews, op-eds, blogs, curated data sets
Digital humanities, data visualizations, video projects offer boundary cases of publication
Increasingly, scholars are making “unpublishable” works public!
Slide15MOOCs – © and Open Access
©
has limited role for materials in MOOC lectures
When transformative purpose is clear
H
arder for materials distributed to participants
MOOCs as new opportunity
Constrained by
©
& traditional publishing?
Open access materials VERY important!
Lower costs for traditional students?
Slide16Open access – shaping our own future
Slide17OA opportunities
More eyeballs
Greater impact
Unexpected readers
Opportunity to track new metrics
Greater control over the scholarly environment
Academic freedom!
Slide18P&T and other OA challenges
Diverse business models
Adaptation and transition
Misperceptions
Peer review & vanity publishing
“Predatory publishing”
The challenge of the new, esp. in P&T process
How can we present and evaluate Alt Metrics
Slide19Steps toward a solution, libraries
Move from commodity to non-commodity focus
Be part of the transition
Developing skills as information management consultations
More of our work will be customized
Focus on the transition in how we spend money
It may cost more before it costs less.
Slide20Steps toward a solution, authors
Share your work as widely as possible
Manage your copyrights
Be aware of your rights when publishing; negotiate
Know your open access options; share your data
Document & present your alt-metrics
Support your library’s strategies
Transition to more open resources
May require cancellations
Slide21Thanks for listening!
Kevin L. Smith
Duke University Libraries
Kevin.l.smith@duke.edu
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