Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre Copyright Compliance and Institutional Repositories: The Do’s, Don’t’s and Challenges Ananda T. Byrappa Manager,

Ananda T. Byrappa, GE India Technology Centre

Copyright Compliance and Institutional Repositories: The Do’s, Don’t’s and Challenges

Ananda T. Byrappa

Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre

GE India Technology Centre

Bangalore, INDIA

Email: [email protected]

Invited Presentation Prepared for "NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPEN ACCESS AND BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES"21-23 Jan 2009 at National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore.

Presentation Plan

• Copyright: Worries and perceptions

• Copyright: What is it?

• Possible copyright violations/Challenges in IR

• What makes your organisation IR compliant ?

• Project RoMEO and the Solutions

• Trends and Challenges

• Useful links

Ananda T. Byrappa, GE Global Research, Bangalore

Copyright and IR: Worries or Perceptions?

• Copyright law is complex in nature

• Fear of “accidentally” violating copyright

• Rights/Permissions: Time consuming

• RoMEO: “Green” is not clear cut

• Can we trust Librarian’s/IR Manager’s copyright expertise?

• RoMEO/Sherpa Publisher

•Copyright Database


Copyright, Infringement and Fair use… Copyright Definition

the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work)

Source: Webster’s Dictionary

Copyright Infringement

Copyright infringement is using someone else's work without getting rights holders permission

Fair use

Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review


Possible copyright Threats/Challenges

• Authors giving away the copyright to their publications

• Publisher’s copyright title transfer agreements

• Different countries have different rules and traditions regarding copyright

• Lack of IR copyright polices

• Photocopying and scanning of documents, images, artworks

• Document Delivery Service

• Inter Library Loan

• Addition of newspaper clippings


What makes you IR compliant …

• Awareness about copyright

• Information Classification/security policy

• Rights negotiation

• Commitment to compliance

• FAQs, Roadmaps on copyright

• Need for policies with every stakeholder – Author, Institution, third party content owner and the user

• Each IR needs its own “conditions of deposit” (words shouldn’t scare authors off from depositing)


Trends and Challenges …

• Increasing awareness about copyright

• Commitment on compliance: CCC and rightsphere

• Digital form of Content

• Technology: Boon or barrier?

• Rights-holder’s issues

• Need for Indian equivalent of CCC/CLA

• SHERPA/RoMEO Solutions


Useful Links…

• RoMEO Project

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/disresearch/romeo/index.html

• SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

• Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC)

http://www.copyright.com

• Copyright Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)

http://www.cla.co.uk

• Indian Copyright Office

http://copyright.gov.in


Project RoMEO


SHERPA/RoMEO Project

The RoMEO Project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) was a JISC funded project (2002/3) at the University of Loughborough to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK community under the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

SHEPA database helps to find out what permissions are normally given as part of each's copyright transfer agreement


What Colors mean

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Questions/Discussion…

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