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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Please read the definitive article on the button</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Consolas">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">and elsewhere</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">, given by Stevan Harnad but not written solely by him</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">, rather than coming up with new interpretations</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">. Yes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">the document</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> is slightly oriented to Canada</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> because it is in press</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> as a book chapter</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">, but</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">it is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">applicable</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> jurisd</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">i</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">ctions across the world</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> (the authors</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">live in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">four</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> countries and have links to at least</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">three</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> more)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> It demonstrate</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> clearly how the button is based on the fair use and fair dealing provisions of the copyright acts around the world, coordinated by the Berne Convention.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> Its status is hardly dubious.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">'Personal use' is irrelevant, whatever it is. Research is not 'personal</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">'</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">, or at least only in minimal senses.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Arthur Sale</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Tasmania</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: goal-bounces@eprints.org [<A HREF="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</A>] On Behalf Of P Burnhill<BR>
Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2013 6:59 AM<BR>
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<BR>
Cc: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum; Lib Serials list<BR>
Subject: [GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] 1st-Party Give-Aways vs. 3rd-Party Rip-Offs</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Good post. P</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Sandy Thatcher wrote:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> Technically, it probably is better to regard the eprint request Button </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> as a function facilitating personal use rather than fair use. (Stevan </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> once used to call this the "fair use button.") The Copyright Act of </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> 1976 does not directly address personal use, as it does fair use in </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> Sec. 107, except in an addition that was later made to deal with home </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> audiotaping. The concept has arisen in some court cases, most notably </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> the Sony case involving "time-shifting" of videotaping of TV shows for </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> later viewing. But there remains a lot of debate about what personal </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> use covers. It will likely be a subject of much discussion in the </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> forthcoming hearings in Congress over comprehensive reform of copyright law.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> Sandy Thatcher</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">> At 10:37 AM -0400 8/7/13, Stevan Harnad wrote:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> If supplying eprints to requesters could be </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> <https://theconversation.com/neuroscientists-need-to-embrace-open-acc</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> ess-publishing-too-16736#comment_198916>delegated</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> to 3rd parties like Repository Managers to perform automatically, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> then they would become violations of copyright contracts.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> What makes the</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>eprint-request</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> Button legal is the fact that it is the author who decides, in each </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> individual instance, whether or not to comply with an individual </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> eprint request for his own work; it does not happen automatically.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> Think about it: If it were just the fact of requesters having to do </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> two keystrokes for access instead of just one (OA), then the </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> compliance keystroke might as well have been done by software rather </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> than the Repository Manager! And that would certainly not be </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> compliance with a publisher OA embargo. "Almost OA" would just become 2-stroke OA.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> No. What makes the</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>eprint-request</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> Button both legal and subversive is that </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0671.html"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0671.html</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>it is </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> not 3rd-party piracy (by either a Repository Manager or an automatic </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> computer</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> programme) but</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/262893/1/resolution.html#9.1"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/262893/1/resolution.html#9.1</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>1st-party</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> provision of individual copies, to individual requesters, for </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> research purposes, by the author, in each individual instance: the </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> latter alone continues the long accepted tradition of </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> reprint-provision by scholars and scientists to their own work.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> If reprint-request cards had been mailed instead to 3rd-parties who </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> simply photocopied anyone's articles and mailed them to requesters </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> (with or without a fee) the practice would have been attacked in the </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> courts by publishers as piracy long ago.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> The best way to undermine the Button as a remedy against publisher OA </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> mandates, and to empower the publishing lobby to block it, would be </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> to conflate it with 2-stroke 3rd-party OA!</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> That practice should never be recommended.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> Rather, make crystal clear the fundamental difference between </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> 1st-party give-away and 3rd-party rip-off.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> [Parenthetically: Of course it is true that all these legal and </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> technical distinctions are trivial nonsense! It is an ineluctable </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> fact that the online PostGutenberg medium has made technically and </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> economically possible and easily feasible what was technically and </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> economically impossible in the Gutenberg medium: to make all refereed </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> research articles -- each, without exception, an author give-away, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> written purely for research impact rather than royalty income -- </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> immediately accessible to all would-be users, not just to </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> subscribers: OA. That outcome is both optimal and inevitable for </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> research; researchers; their institutions; their funders; the R&D </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> industry; students; teachers; journalists; the developing world; </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> access-denied scholars and scientists; the general public; research </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> uptake, productivity, impact and progress; and the tax-payers who </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> fund the research. The only parties with whose interests that optimal </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> outcome is in conflict are the refereed-research publishers who had </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> been providing an essential service to research in the Gutenberg era. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> It is that publishing "tail" that is now trying to wag the research </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> "dog," to deter and delay what is optimal and inevitable for research </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> for as long as possible, by invoking Gutenberg-era pseudo-legal </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> pseudo-technicalities to try to embargo OA, by holding it hostage to </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> their accustomed revenue streams and modus operandi. OA mandates, the </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> immediate-deposit clause, and the eprint-request Button are the </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> research community's means of mooting these delay tactics and </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> hastening the natural evolution to the optimal and inevitable outcome </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> in the PostGutenberg era.]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2012) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>Open Access Mandates and the </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> "Fair Dealing" Button. In:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> <http://www.utppublishing.com/Dynamic-Fair-Dealing-Creating-Canadian-</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> Culture-Online.html>Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">>> Online (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Consolas">></FONT></SPAN></P>
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