[GOAL] Fwd: German government proposes copyright amendment granting a right of secondary publication (green road)

[Stevan Harnad]

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> From: Christoph Bruch <bruch---zedat.fu-berlin.de>
> Subject: [BOAI] German government proposes copyright amendment granting
>                a right of secondary publication (green road)
> Date: 21 February, 2013 6:33:23 AM EST
> 
> Dear All,
>  
> Yesterday the German government released a draft version for an amendment
> to the German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz), s. attachment.
>  
> The amendment covers several issues, one of those is of special interest for this
> list: a regulation concerning the green road to open access
>  
> The German research community and the German Länder (states) have been
> advocating this “right of secondary publication” for several years.
>  
> The faith of the bill is unclear as the current legislature ends in September already.
>  
> The draft bill has not been formally introduced  in parliament (Bundestag) yet
> and the governing coalition is divided on the issue.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Christoph
>  
>  
> Paragraph to be added to section 38 of the German copyright act
>  
> (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.
>  
> 4) Even if copyright was transferred exclusively to the publisher, the author of a scientific 
> contribution, which stems from at least half publicly funded research and teaching activities
> and published in a periodical which is at least published twice yearly, has the right to make 
> the accepted manuscript version of the contribution publicly available (internet)after the 
> expiration of twelve months after the first publication, provided this serves no commercial
> purpose and the source of the original publication is indicated. A deviating agreement to
> the disadvantage of the author is invalid.
>  
> Please find the full bill attached.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Christoph
>  
>  
> Christoph Bruch
> Helmholtz Association
> Helmholtz Open Access Coordination Office
> M: christoph.bruch at oa.helmholtz.de
> W: http://oa.helmholtz.de
> P: +49 (0)471 - 48 31 23 25
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