Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Metadata copyright proposal
Following the links in Jack's post, and the links in them, took me to an article called "Liberalization of PNAS copyright policy" for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
In short, it says:
Our guiding principle is that, while PNAS retains copyright, anyone can make noncommercial use of work in PNAS without asking our permission, provided that the original source is cited. For commercial use (e.g., in books for sale or in corporate marketing materials), we approve requests on an individual basis and may ask for compensation.I think this should be how metadata is handled as well, answering the fears of indexers that they alone of the contributors to a book's creation would lose their rights.
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An important issue behind all of this so-called freeing up for publication the results of serious research, and I probably should have mentioned it in my post, is that of the necessary infrastructure for the conduct of research as we presently understand that process. This means paying people to perform peer reviews, editorial stuff, etc. That, it turns out, is the siren song bellowed by those engaged in the process. What's impressive about arXiv is that it's just for preprints. That gets the information, before review, out for others to share and think about. Maybe the publishers of serials just need to get over their fear that prepubs will impact their markets. Or not. Much food for thought, here.
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