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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Yesterday the German government released a draft version for an amendment to the German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz), s. attachment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>The amendment covers several issues, one of those is of special interest for this list: a r</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>egulation concerning the green road to open access</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>The German research community and the German Länder (states) have been advocating this “right of secondary publication” for several years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>The faith of the bill is unclear as the current legislature ends in September already.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>The draft bill has not been formally introduced in parliament (Bundestag) yet and the governing coalition is divided on the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Christoph<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Paragraph to be added to section 38 of the German copyright act<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>(4) Der Urheber eines wissenschaftlichen Beitrags, der im Rahmen einer mindestens zur Hälfte mit öffentlichen Mitteln finanzierten Lehr- und Forschungstätigkeit entstanden und in einer periodisch mindestens zweimal jährlich erscheinenden Sammlung erschienen ist, hat auch dann, wenn er dem Verleger oder Herausgeber ein ausschließliches Nutzungsrecht eingeräumt hat, das Recht, den Beitrag nach Ablauf von zwölf Monaten seit der Erstveröffentlichung in der akzeptierten Manuskriptversion öffentlich zugänglich zu machen, soweit dies keinem gewerblichen Zweck dient. Die Quelle der Erstveröffentlichung ist anzugeben. Eine zum Nachteil des Urhebers abweichende Vereinbarung ist unwirksam.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=hps><span lang=EN>4)</span></span><span lang=EN> E<span class=hps>ven if</span> copyright was transferred <span class=hps>exclusively to the</span> <span class=hps>publisher, the author of a</span> <span class=hps>scientific</span> <span class=hps>contribution, which</span> stems from at <span class=hps>least half publicly funded</span> <span class=hps>research and teaching</span> <span class=hps>activities</span> <span class=hps>and</span> <span class=hps>published in a</span> <span class=hps>periodical</span> which is <span class=hps>at least</span> published <span class=hps>twice yearly</span>, has <span class=hps>the right to</span> <span class=hps>make</span> <span class=hps>the accepted</span> <span class=hps>manuscript</span> <span class=hps>version</span> of the <span class=hps>contribution</span> publicly available (internet) <span class=hps>after the expiration of</span> <span class=hps>twelve months</span> <span class=hps>after the</span> <span class=hps>first publication,</span> provided <span class=hps>this serves</span> <span class=hps>no</span> <span class=hps>commercial purpose and the source</span> <span class=hps>of the original publication is</span> <span class=hps>indicated.</span> <span class=hps>A</span> <span class=hps>deviating agreement</span> <span class=hps>to the disadvantage</span> <span class=hps>of the author is</span> <span class=hps>invalid</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Please find the full bill attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Christoph</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Christoph Bruch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Helmholtz Association<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Helmholtz Open Access Coordination Office<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>M: christoph.bruch@oa.helmholtz.de<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>W: <a href="http://oa.helmholtz.de">http://oa.helmholtz.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>P: +49 (0)471 - 48 31 23 25<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>