The document discusses copyright in universities. It covers basics of copyright including that it applies to original works and lasts for the author's lifetime plus 70 years. It addresses myths like registration not being required. Academic works like notes, publications and software can be protected by copyright or other rights like patents. Universities should have policies around who owns staff and student works. The document also discusses open access and open science initiatives, how research councils support increased open access, and tools like Creative Commons for licensing works.

1. ( Copyright in
Universities
Andres Guadamuz
)

2. ( Before we begin
)

3. ( Copyright Basics
)

4. ( Copyright is more than piracy
)

5. ( )

6. ( Copyright
)
⊛ Copyright flows “from the nib to the paper”
⊛ Awarded to all original literary, musical, and
artistic works.
⊛ Books, articles, film, pictures, presentations,
speeches, amateur videos, lectures,
sculptures, paintings, software.
⊛ International protection.
⊛ Lasts lifetime of the author +70 years

7. ( Myths
)
⊛ Does not require registration (although
registration helps enforcement).
⊛ No need to place a © sign to claim work.
⊛ Infringement rarely carries criminal liability.
⊛ “Anything posted online is public domain”.
⊛ You can’t copyright a word or short phrase
(but you can trademark it).

8. ( Originality
)
Idea Expression

9. ( Academic works
)

10. ( Academic outputs and IP
)
Other/No
Copyright Patents Database right
protection
•Designs
•Notes •Software •Brands
•Publications •Biotechnology •Data •Materials
•Reports •Processes •Databases •Plant varieties
•Data •Methods •Genetic banks
•Software •Data
•STLTWP

11. ( Teaching and research
cycle )
Publications Textbooks
Teaching
Research
materials

12. ( Important academic
considerations )
⊛ Who owns your output?
⊛ Teaching materials
⊛ Published research
⊛ Learning objects
⊛ Is there a university-wide copyright policy?

13. ( Repositories
)
⊛ Institutional repositories for research and
teaching materials.
⊛ Password protected - Intranet.
⊛ Self-archiving policy - BEPress, SSRN
⊛ Licensing policies

14. ( Open access
)

15. ( Open science
)
⊛ “Open science is the
application of open source
software licensing principles
and clauses to protect and
distribute the fruits of
scientific research.” Y.T.

16. ( Science is open
)

17. ( Open access
)
⊛ “Open access” (OA) is free online access.
OA literature is not only free of charge to
everyone with an internet connection, but
free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions. OA literature is barrier-free
literature produced by removing the price
barriers and permission barriers that block
access and limit usage of most
conventionally published literature, whether
in print or online.”
Peter Suber

18. ( Types of open
access )
⊛ "Green OA" is provided by authors
publishing in any journal and then self-
archiving their postprints in their institutional
repository or on some other OA website.
⊛ "Gold OA" is provided by authors publishing
in an open access journal that provides
immediate OA to all of its articles on the
publisher's website.

19. ( OA success
)
⊛ Public Library of Science (PLoS)
⊛ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
lists 3,806 journals as of today.
⊛ High impact of OA publications: Harnard
(2004) study found no difference in impact
between OA and non-OA journals, but there
is marked difference in impact from authors
who self-archive (SSRN) and those who do
not.

20. ( Research Councils
UK )
“The Research Councils are committed to the
guiding principles that publicly funded
research must be made available to the public
and remain accessible for future generations.
Research Councils have agreed that over time
the UK Research Councils will support
increased open access [...]”

21. ( Creative Commons
)

22. ( Copyright royalty
exports (2002) )

23. ( Copyright royalty
exports (2002) )

24. ( Copyright royalty
exports (2002) )

25. ( Copyright royalty
exports (2002) )

26. ( Spectrum of rights
)

27. ( Licensing elements
Attribution: Every CC licences allows the world to
)
copy and distribute a work provided that the
licensee credits the creator/licensor.
The author may include these other elements:
NonCommercial: licensees can use the work for
non-commercial purposes.
or
No Derivatives: the work cannot be modified.
ShareAlike: the work can be copied, modified and
distributed if the author releases the derivative
under the same licence.

28. ( Types of licence
)

29. ( Simple License Generator
)

30. Human-Readable Lawyer-Readable Machine-Readable
Commons Deed Legal Code Digital Code
( )
<a rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
2.5/scotland/">
<img alt="Creative Commons
License" style="border-width:0"
src="http://i.creativecommons.org/
l/by/2.5/scotland/88x31.png" />
</a>
<br />This work is licensed under a
<a rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
2.5/scotland/">Creative Commons
Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland
License</a>.

31. ( )

32. ( Concluding
)

33. ( alguadamuz@innovatechnology.net
@technollama at Twitter
http://www.technollama.co.uk/ )