<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>In UK law (uniquely?) the publisher DOES get copyright in typography and layout, and so owns the copyright in the pdf, irrespective of the copyright status of the original manuscript. It lasts for 25 years from the date of publication. But that (annoying) fact doesn't significantly weaken Arthur's overall argument.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Charles</span></div><div> </div><div>Professor Charles Oppenheim<br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Arthur Sale <ahjs@ozemail.com.au><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' <goal@eprints.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 13 January 2012, 1:50<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [GOAL] Research Works Act, HR3699<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1309980776"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1309980776WordSection1"><h1><i>Research Works Act</i>, HR3699</h1><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal">There is one aspect of the proposed Act HR3699 that is very interesting. <i>It is an admission by the publishers involved that they do not at present have any intrinsic intellectual property right to control the disposition of the Version of Record</i> otherwise known as the ‘publisher’s pdf’. The Act is an attempt to create a new right. You should read the full proposed Act (see Note 4). It is absurd, and badly drafted, perhaps deliberately to mislead.</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal">Let me tease this out a bit. The author of an article, or of a book, creates the work and owns the copyright in normal circumstances (unless the work was created for an employer). Copy-editing, layout, pagination, typesetting
and publishing do not create any new IP, so publishers of scholarly articles have no <i>intrinsic</i> intellectual property (IP) rights over the Version of Record – it remains as it was at the start: the intellectual property of the author. It is easy to demonstrate this:</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Pick up a random set of books (non-fiction, fiction or text books) and turn to the front matter. Who is listed as the copyright holder? In nearly every case the author. If the complex task of editing and publishing of a book does not generate any new IP, why would it do so in the far simpler case of articles? (See Notes 1 and 2.)</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>If there was any new IP generated by editing and publishing, the publishers of open access journals would have to transfer it to the author to be included in the Creative Commons licence applying to the VoR. They do not.</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>If I as an author contract with a private service to type up my manuscript (as in days past) or proof-read it and correct its English, I do not expect that I have given them any rights in the work, nor do they. Artists do not expect that the acts of framing their work for sale or displaying it in a gallery creates any new IP either.</div><div
class="yiv1309980776MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Publishers used to routinely send authors a bunch of reprints of their work so they could dispose of it one-on-one (it was indisputably theirs); it was legitimate to charge for extra reprints as there was a printing and paper cost. Now they provide a pdf, and no extra copy option.</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"><i>It is clear that publishers have no intrinsic IP rights in the VoR</i>. I do not know where the idea that they did arose, but it was probably about the time of the Internet’s arrival and online article servers. Prior to that, it simply would not have occurred to anyone as relevant.</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div
class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal">The publisher claim to control the VoR in fact relies <b><i>exclusively</i></b> on the contract between the author and the publisher. The author grants the publisher at least a [non-exclusive worldwide] licence to publish, and the publisher contracts to supply editing and layout services and to publish the work in exchange for the licence. Of course in many cases the author grants the publisher an <i>exclusive</i> licence, or grants a <i>complete transfer</i> of copyright. In such cases, the publisher has a claim against the author if he or she breaks the terms of the contract by re-publishing the work as OA. (I use the word ‘publish’ in the sense of the Copyright Act, not as academics understand it.)</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal">The proposed Act is pointless and doomed to fail, as the Copyright Law of the world is a set of international interlocking
agreements. HR3699 is not an amendment to the Copyright Act, which would be instant death to it. Even if by some quirk of US politics it got passed into law, it would apply nowhere else, and would be extraordinarily unlikely to be copied. All it attempts to do is prevent US agencies from enacting OA requirements.</div><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;"><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"> </div></div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"><b>Note 1</b>. There are some exceptions. If the publisher or the author engage a third party to prepare illustrations for a text manuscript, the artist/photographer will also be listed as copyright owner of these. This almost never applies to scholarly articles in which illustrations are prepared by the author, though it will apply to the populist science press such as Scientific
American, New Scientist and National Geographic.</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;"><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"><b>Note 2</b>. Exceptions may also occur in compendia such as dictionaries and encyclopedias (mostly reference texts).</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"><b>Note 3.</b> This proposed Act is a side-show to the RFI, except insofar as it distracts attention from the main activity, and reveals the wish of some publishers to maintain monopoly rent profits for as long as possible. Looked at directly and analysed, it suggests a strong motive to require publishers to adopt sustainable business practices, sooner rather than later. Restrictive trade practices cannot be justified in the
present financial state of the world.</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"><b>Note 4</b>. See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3699ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3699ih.pdf">http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3699ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3699ih.pdf</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699</a>:. </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"> </div></div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"><i> </i></div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"><b>Note 5</b>. The Australian Copyright Act describes adaptation (which attracts new IP) as follows:</div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraph"> “adaptation” means:</div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraph"
style="margin-left:36.6pt;"><span style="">(a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>in relation to a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#literary_work">literary work</a> in a non-dramatic form a version of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a> (whether in its original language or in a different language) in a dramatic form; </div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraph" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.55pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="">(b)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>in relation to a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#literary_work">literary work</a> in a dramatic form a version of the <a
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a> (whether in its original language or in a different language) in a non <i>- </i>dramatic form; </div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraph" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;">(ba) in relation to a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#literary_work">literary work</a> being a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s47ab.html#computer_program">computer program</a>--a version of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a> (whether or not in the language, code or notation in which the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a> was originally expressed) not being a reproduction of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a>; </div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraph" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="">(c)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>in relation to a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#literary_work">literary work</a> (whether in a non <i>- </i>dramatic form or in a dramatic form): </div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraphsub" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:90.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="">(i)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman";"> </span></span>a translation of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a>; or </div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraphsub" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:90.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="">(ii)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>a version of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a> in which a story or <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s135al.html#action">action</a> is conveyed solely or principally by means of pictures; and </div><div class="yiv1309980776paragraph"
style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="">(d)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>in relation to a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#musical_work">musical work</a>--an arrangement or transcription of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s189.html#work">work</a>. </div><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;"><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"> </div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;">None of this describes copy-editing!</div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm;"> </div></div><div class="yiv1309980776MsoNormal"> </div><div
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