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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Thanks Marcin. As people will see if you follow the link, the report was almost instantly retracted with a statement saying
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yesterday you received a Policy Brief on copyright law that was published without adequate
review within the RSC and failed to meet that standard.”</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">!! I’ve just read about it in an email from the 1709 Copyright Blog, which I can forward to this list if people are interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marcin Wojnarski<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 20 November 2012 11:38<br>
<b>To:</b> goal@eprints.org; open-access@lists.okfn.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Copyright Law Destroys Markets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A few days ago, Republicans released a report about flaws of copyright law, suggesting revolutionary reforms. Very important initiative for all academia. Scholars should speak and strongly back the initiative, to help liberate academic
literature. You can read a write-up <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121116/16481921080/house-republicans-copyright-law-destroys-markets-its-time-real-reform.shtml">
here</a>. Some quotes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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[about term of protection]<i> ... Gradually this period began to expand, but today’s copyright law bears almost no resemblance to the constitutional provision that enabled it and the conception of this right by our Founding Fathers.<br>
- Original Copyright Law [AD 1790]: <b>14 years</b>, plus 14 year renewal if author is alive.
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- Current Copyright Law: <b>Life of author plus 70 years</b>; and for corporate authors
<b>120 years after creation</b> or 95 years after publication.</i><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<i>copyright continue to be extended perpetually, ensuring that works <b>never</b> actually enter the public domain (...) that would effectively nullify Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the
<b>Constitution</b> which provides protection only for “limited times.”</i><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<i>[copyright] <b>penalizes legitimate journalism</b> and oversight (...) Current copyright law allows for producers of written materials, such as memos or other documents, to claim copyright when they are seeking to hide incriminating information.</i><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<i>Because there is minimal or nearly non-existent punishment for bogus copyright claims today, false takedown requests are common and have a chilling effect upon legitimate speech. (...) This often leads to de facto
<b>censorship</b>.</i><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<i>Current copyright law does not merely distort some markets – rather it <b>destroys</b> entire markets.</i><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
[from Infringement Nation] <i>things you do every single day are infringing and leave
<b>every single person</b> liable for <b>billions in damages</b> each year</i><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">(emphasis mine)<br>
There's a separate section on academic literature. Quoting in full:<br>
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<b>B. Hampering scientific inquiry:</b><br>
Scientific papers from the early portion of the 20th century are still under copyright. . .<br>
This is illogical, as the purpose of most scientific papers is to further intellectual<br>
inquiry, and the goal of most authors of scientific papers is to advance their field and<br>
to be cited in other publications. Many professors are assessed upon the number of<br>
citations for their major works. For these reasons, keeping their work in what are<br>
effectively locked vaults defeats the purpose of much of their work.<br>
Obviously these producers need to be compensated to justify the cost of their<br>
research, but after around 14 years, most, if not nearly all, of the earning capacity of<br>
their work has been exhausted, and at that point the overriding interest is in ensuring<br>
that these works are available for others. While there are exceptions in the law for the<br>
use of this material for good faith exceptions, there are numerous examples where<br>
for-profit entities want to use published journal articles but are unable to do so<br>
without negotiating a payment to the producer of the content.<br>
If however, these older papers were available online for free on Google Scholar to<br>
anyone to access and use after a reasonable period of time then it would greatly<br>
increase the availability and utilization of scientific analysis.<br>
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<pre>Marcin Wojnarski, Founder and CEO, TunedIT<o:p></o:p></pre>
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