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<span style="font-weight:bold">De : </span>leru <<a href="mailto:info@leru.org">info@leru.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date : </span>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:25:52 +0200<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Objet : </span>PRESS RELEASE: What kind of world is STM living in?<br>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">19 SEPTEMBER 2016<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(237, 125, 49);">What kind of world is STM living in?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">14 September saw the International Association of STM publishers (</span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="file:///C:\Users\ucylpay\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\L34W5RGR\(http:\www.stm-assoc.org\"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">STM</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">)
issue a </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stm-assoc.org/2016_09_14_News_Release_STM_response_to_Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Single_Digital_Market.pdf"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">response</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
to the EC’s proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which flies in the face of LERU’s
</span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/eu-copyright-reform-and-tdm-potentially-good-for-research-but-certainly-not-yet-for-innovation-/"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">views</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
contained in its own Press Release. Amongst other things, STM is calling for the extension of ancillary copyright to cover academic publishing, implying that they will take legal action if this does not happen. The omission of scientific publishers from the
scope of the Directive is labelled ‘disappointing, unwarranted and potentially discriminatory’. Ancillary copyright in this case would extend copyright protection, not allowing academics and universities freely to link to/use the world of information on the
Internet, placing publishers in control of the information environment. LERU rejects this as counter to academic freedom and to the EC’s vison for Open Science. It would be a black day for Europe if STM’s suggested extension of copyright protection were adopted.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What kind of world is STM living in? Not for the first time, LERU is issuing a complete rejection of the notions they are putting forward. The inclusion of scientific
publishers in the projected extension of copyright legislation would do untold damage to the ability of researchers to share their findings and reference the world of scholarship in their published works. The current freedom of academics to link to/use the
vast store of information available on the Internet would be lost. If this suggested copyright reform takes place, copyright clearance fees could commonly be levied by publishers to allow linking to URLs on the web to take place. In seeking answers to challenges
which beset the world – poverty, disease, environmental change – how does it help Society to make it more difficult to discover solutions? STM’s proposal for the extension of copyright could indeed make scholarship as we know it impossible and represents an
attack on academic freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">LERU believes strongly in the agenda being proposed by the Commission for Open Science and supports the
</span><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Call_for_Action_on_Open_Science"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%">Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.
The Call endorses "full open access for all scientific publications" and envisages a world where the sharing of research data (Open data) is the default position for research data outputs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they feel threatened, but there is no need for STM to do that as well. Extending the scope of the EC Copyright Directive
in ancillary copyright to scientific publishers would be a black day for European research and its universities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Indeed, any extension of the EU’s copyright frameworks to include ancillary copyright will damage European research organisations, as libraries and communications
departments would henceforth be unable to report and link news items on the web, without presumably the payment of copyright clearance fees. This is not the world envisioned by the Amsterdam Call for Action, which includes the ambition to make all new papers
published in the European Union freely available by 2020. EU copyright reform should support this endeavour, not stifle it. LERU believes that all the EC’s planned reforms should be complementary and support a pan-European move to Open Science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">STM also calls for “rights holders’ consent” to be included in the legislation regarding an Exception for Text and Data Mining (TDM). The introduction of an Exception
for TDM is a vital part of the current projected EC copyright reform. TDM is the “process of deriving information from machine-read material. It works by copying large quantities of material, extracting the data, and recombining it to identify patterns” (JISC).
Despite the technical definition of TDM, many daily practical benefits arise from it for both research and Society in general. TDM is a necessary tool for researchers in order to deal with the vast amount of data and publications. It allows for the acceleration
of knowledge creation, competitiveness and growth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Europe currently lags behind other countries in the world who have made legislative changes to enable TDM in their jurisdictions. STM clearly wants to control any
use of TDM technology and so is proposing that copyright holders should first give their consent to allow TDM to take place. This is a preposterous suggestion and unworkable. A researcher may want to undertake TDM on hundreds of publications and associated
outputs in order to extract new linkages and meanings from the materials. It would be physically impossible for them to track down and write to every rights holder to gain the permissions STM is requesting. Scientific research would be damaged beyond measure
as a result. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">LERU believes that the right to read is the right to mine; as a result, no licensing or permissions are necessary. LERU commends the EC for introducing a mandatory
Exception for TDM, which cannot be overridden by contract. This is the right approach and LERU encourages the Commission to go further by making the scope of the Exception as broad as possible, beyond simply research organisations to cover all areas of Open
Science such as Citizen Science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The STM call for extension of ancillary copyright provisions is ridiculous. What instead is needed is an EC-led copyright reform which supports Open Science and
the European citizen who funds it.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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