Comics, Copyright and Academic Publishing

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

Copyright Issues in a Digital Publishing World

Digital Curation, Copyright, and Academic Research

A defining characteristic of contemporary copyright law is the willingness of governments to accept the argument that the impact of digital technologies requires copyright owners to be given ever greater control over the use of their works, regardless of the detriment to the copyright regime's 'public interest' elements. Yet a one-size-fits-all 'all rights reserved' copyright regime clearly fai...

Scholary Publication and Copyright in Networked Electronic Publishing

THE PuBLicATioN OF SCHOLARLY WORKS in a networked electronic environment presents many opportunities for solving some of the problems that currently exist in the print world. At the same time, copyright law, a form of legal protection developed primarily for printed works, has been used to create stumbling blocks both for faculty authors and their institutions. This has occurred because publish...

Great Impressions in Academic Publishing

By wide margins, the House cast preliminary votes on Mar 2, 1995 for a bill that would prohibit federal agencies fi-om protecting wetlands or endangered species unless landowners are compensated for any resulting decline in their property's value. The bill, which is strongly opposed by the Clinton administration, would make it easier for landowners to file claims against the government when the...