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KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2010, 21:00 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010, 17:46 - Rubrik: English Corner
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In the beginning of March 2010, a few hundreds files have been deleted
on the French Wikisource following a request from Gallimard, a leading
French publisher. [1] The Wikimedia Foundation received a request from
Editions Gallimard to takedown content from the French Wikisource.
This request is based on Editions Gallimard's claim that "Wikisource
content in the French language targets the French public, and
therefore, under French conflict of laws principles, the copyright law
of France applies to this content." They were deleted, according to
Mike Godwin, following the Online Copyright Infringement Liability
Limitation Act [2]. These texts are from a dozen authors, and some are
even in the public domain in France.
In addition, I receive a personal letter, as "the main editor" of
these texts, according to Gallimard. We didn't receive any information
from the Wikimedia Foundation, and I know the details only because I
have been personally involved.
I understand that there is a 15 business days delay after which the
material "must be put back up" (cf. Wikipedia) if Gallimard does not
file a lawsuit. Now three months later, we didn't receive any
information from the Foundation about this, and the texts are still
deleted. Many contributors are obviously not very happy, and feel that
the Foundation submitted to the pressure of a commercial publisher.
Comparing with the National Portrait Gallery affair on Commons, it
looks like a double standard was applied.
Just a few days before these texts were deleted, I asked Cary what was
the official opinion of Wikimedia Foundation about texts which are in
the public domain in USA, but not in France. I was told that "the
community is entitled to decide by itself".
Comments?
Regards,
Yann
[1] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Demande_des_%C3%A9ditions_Gallimard_du_15_f%C3%A9vrier_2010
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act
on the French Wikisource following a request from Gallimard, a leading
French publisher. [1] The Wikimedia Foundation received a request from
Editions Gallimard to takedown content from the French Wikisource.
This request is based on Editions Gallimard's claim that "Wikisource
content in the French language targets the French public, and
therefore, under French conflict of laws principles, the copyright law
of France applies to this content." They were deleted, according to
Mike Godwin, following the Online Copyright Infringement Liability
Limitation Act [2]. These texts are from a dozen authors, and some are
even in the public domain in France.
In addition, I receive a personal letter, as "the main editor" of
these texts, according to Gallimard. We didn't receive any information
from the Wikimedia Foundation, and I know the details only because I
have been personally involved.
I understand that there is a 15 business days delay after which the
material "must be put back up" (cf. Wikipedia) if Gallimard does not
file a lawsuit. Now three months later, we didn't receive any
information from the Foundation about this, and the texts are still
deleted. Many contributors are obviously not very happy, and feel that
the Foundation submitted to the pressure of a commercial publisher.
Comparing with the National Portrait Gallery affair on Commons, it
looks like a double standard was applied.
Just a few days before these texts were deleted, I asked Cary what was
the official opinion of Wikimedia Foundation about texts which are in
the public domain in USA, but not in France. I was told that "the
community is entitled to decide by itself".
Comments?
Regards,
Yann
[1] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Demande_des_%C3%A9ditions_Gallimard_du_15_f%C3%A9vrier_2010
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010, 19:43 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Cambridge University Library's project to re-catalogue its incunabula online has now been running for six months, and we have started a blog to record our progress and draw attention to new discoveries. Posts so far include "A book from Parrhasius's library", "Cicero re-ordered", which identifies the 1471 Venice edition of "De finibus bonorum et malorum" as the editio princeps of that text, and an appeal for help in identifying some painted arms in a copy of Pomponius Mela's "De chorographia".
For further details of the project please see:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/incunabulaproject.html
The blog can be found at:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/incblog/
and the catalogue can be searched at:
http://ul-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/searchBasic
For further details of the project please see:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/incunabulaproject.html
The blog can be found at:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/incblog/
and the catalogue can be searched at:
http://ul-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/searchBasic
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 28. Mai 2010, 23:24 - Rubrik: English Corner
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The SOAP Project (*), funded by the European Commission, would like to
announce the release of an online survey to assess researchers'
experiences with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform the
most comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing to
date and is seeking views from a wide a range of interested parties. It
is primarily aimed at active researchers in public and private
organizations, from all research fields in science and the humanities
and focuses on publication of research articles in (open access)
peer-reviewed journals.
If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open
access, please visit http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d.
It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. We would appreciate if you
would share this link with your colleagues and collaborators so that the
views of your discipline are properly represented.
The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights as
well as recommendations will be openly shared with the European
Commission, publishers, research funding agencies, libraries and
researchers.
Thanks in advance, the SOAP Project Team info@project-soapSPAMNOT.eu
(*) Note: The SOAP consortium is coordinated by CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research. It represents key stakeholders in
open access, such as publishers BioMed Central, SAGE and Springer;
funding agencies (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council) and
libraries (the Max Planck Digital Library of the Max Planck Society).
The project runs for two years, from March 2009 to February 2011.
http://project-soap.eu/
announce the release of an online survey to assess researchers'
experiences with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform the
most comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing to
date and is seeking views from a wide a range of interested parties. It
is primarily aimed at active researchers in public and private
organizations, from all research fields in science and the humanities
and focuses on publication of research articles in (open access)
peer-reviewed journals.
If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open
access, please visit http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d.
It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. We would appreciate if you
would share this link with your colleagues and collaborators so that the
views of your discipline are properly represented.
The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights as
well as recommendations will be openly shared with the European
Commission, publishers, research funding agencies, libraries and
researchers.
Thanks in advance, the SOAP Project Team info@project-soapSPAMNOT.eu
(*) Note: The SOAP consortium is coordinated by CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research. It represents key stakeholders in
open access, such as publishers BioMed Central, SAGE and Springer;
funding agencies (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council) and
libraries (the Max Planck Digital Library of the Max Planck Society).
The project runs for two years, from March 2009 to February 2011.
http://project-soap.eu/
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 28. Mai 2010, 22:59 - Rubrik: English Corner
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