[Dspace-general] Copyright for unpublished works?

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hi Stan,

CC is a modular license system regulating the way a resource can be 
used. It does not affect copyright. So placing a resource under e.g.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/ does not hold 
information about the copyright. In this case you got to have additional 
information as "Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner 
specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests 
that they endorse you or your use of the work)." in order to fulfill 
this the user must have the information.

You got to distinguish between use rights and copyright. The copyright 
owner of a resource can grant exclusive and non-exclusive use rights 
(which might be distinguished print, electronic publishing, film ...) to 
someone else.

Many repositories simply got a general statement like "All items in 
[Your repository] are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved."
or
"Items in [YourRepository] are protected by copyright, with all rights 
reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

So in repository terms your got 3 types of rights:
- the copyright (mostly stored in dc.rights)
- the rights granted by the copyright owner to the repository (stored in 
DSpace as a license with the item)
- the rgihts granted by the copyright owner to users of the resource via 
the repository. (mostly stored in dc.rights.accessRights)

Note that copyright law varies from country to country, with little 
harmonization in IPL.

Hope that helps

Claudia Jürgen






Stan Orlov schrieb:
> Greetings!
> 
> We are starting promotion of the upcoming IR and some faculty are asking
> about copyright.  They have unpublished works they would like to put in IR,
> but they want to ensure that everybody knows they were the first to make
> these works available.  My boss suggests using creative commons license
> which, according to her, should cover that.  I believe that's what most
> people would use, but I would love to confirm with those who have been
> working with previously unpublished papers in IR.  If someone has an example
> of copyright notice I could show to my faculty, I would be very grateful.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stan
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