Who owns our work?

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Presented at the UK Serials Group 2010 conference, 13 April 2010.

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Who owns our work?

Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

UKSG 2010

Who owns our work?

Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

UKSG 2010

whose?

Who owns our work?

Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

UKSG 2010

whose?

has a stake in

Who owns our work?

Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

UKSG 2010

whose?

has a stake in

labour, or

product?

which work?

Who owns our work?

Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

UKSG 2010

whose?

has a stake in

sometimes

it’s a “what,”

not a “who”labour, or

product?

which work?

Who owns our work?

Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

UKSG 2010

whose?

has a stake in

sometimes

it’s a “what,”

not a “who”labour, or

product?

which work??

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KEEP OUT?Keep whom

out of what?

KEEP OUT?Keep whom

out of what?

IDEAS.

KEEP OUT?Keep whom

out of what?

IDEAS.

IDEASmethods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results

KEEP OUT?Keep whom

out of what?

IDEAS.

IDEAS

ideas explicitly left out of copyright

methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results

KEEP OUT?Keep whom

out of what?

IDEAS.

IDEAS

ideas explicitly left out of copyright

patent, instead

methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results

KEEP OUT?Keep whom

out of what?

IDEAS.

IDEAS

ideas explicitly left out of copyright

patent, instead

publishing does not touch the patent system(except to impede it if done too soon)

methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results

KEEP OUT?Keep whom

out of what?

IDEAS.

IDEAS

ideas explicitly left out of copyright

patent, instead

publishing does not touch the patent system(except to impede it if done too soon)

libraries don’t, eitherexcept as sources of patent information

methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results

“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!

IDEAS.

“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!

IDEAS.

“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!

Author lists are a crude instrument at best.

IDEAS.

“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!

Can publishing redress this inequity?

Does a “credit roll” do the job?

Author lists are a crude instrument at best.

IDEAS.

IDEAS.

PRE-PUBLICATIONOften creates copyrightable objects!

But treated either as completely open or as faux-“trade secrets”

IDEAS.

PRE-PUBLICATIONOften creates copyrightable objects!

But treated either as completely open or as faux-“trade secrets”

Minimal third-party processing at this point

Ergo minimal competing ownership claims

IDEAS. IDE AS

IDEAS. IDE ASIDEAS

IDEAS. IDE ASIDEAS

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IMPACT

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ACCESS

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Thank you!

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