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Copyright Whose is it? And who benefits?. Copyright: ownership and benefits What kind of right? The individual and society How copyright has grown The.

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1 Copyright Whose is it? And who benefits?

2 Copyright: ownership and benefits What kind of right? The individual and society How copyright has grown The academy as producer The academy as consumer Options between private and public benefit

3 What kind of right? A property right, giving: control over use and circulation economic benefits moral rights – integrity, ‘paternity’ Also establishes circumstances in which the owner cannot prevent use

4 What kind of right? How absolute is a property right? An American steals a personal stereo from his neighbour. The Bangladesh government manufactures a patented medicine against TB, and pays no royalties.

5 The individual and society Even where society recognises your ownership, it insists there are circumstances in which you cannot prevent use: Fair dealing Statutory licences Guaranteed access

6 How copyright has grown Extension of rights or limitation of rights? Time! 70 years Scope: databases, technical measures

7 The growing scope of copyright Protection for technical measures creates a kind of ‘collateral damage’: it can go far beyond any society’s intended scope of copyright Infringing fair dealing or guaranteed access Obstructing free movement of goods Potential absolute barrier to social use

8 The academy as producer Output created at taxpayers’ expense, then sold back to the taxpayer! Publisher’s role Periodicals price index

9 Open access Author forgoes some exclusive rights of exploitation Requires publicly supported, non- commercial archive Difficulty over peer review, associated recognition for assessment and promotion

10 The academy as producer Not-for-profit publishers Mismatch between production and consumption

11 The academy as consumer Geographical spread Immediacy Use of L2 Political and economic imperatives for inclusion Changing subject mixes: vocational Segmentation and specialisation

12 Between public and private benefit Statutory licences and collecting societies Different forms of copyright ownership: author to publisher publisher to subscriber/user Accountable to all stakeholders

13 Statutory licences Quantitative limits: proportion of work Record-keeping Fair remuneration/impact on rightsholders’ business Balance between users’ and creators’ rights Overcome furtiveness, uncertainty, enforcement difficulties


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