[Eril-l] Question about copyright on Institutional Repository documents

[Melissa Belvadi]

"CC was more modern and supported sharing more than Copyright" - this
doesn't make any sense. Copyright law is what it is. CC licenses are just
that, licenses which work within the applicable copyright law - they do not
supersede it or stand separate from it in any way, with the exception of C0
which is putting things in the public domain and does pull the work
entirely out of copyright.

Copyright holders use licenses all the time to provide authorized use to
copyrighted works. CC is just a canned set of licenses that are recommended
for widespread use so we don't all have to get our own lawyers and write
licenses from scratch.

I hope this clarifies all this somewhat.

Melissa Belvadi


On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Harper, Cynthia <charper at vts.edu> wrote:

> Hi – Maybe this is not the right forum, but maybe some of you will know.
>
>
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> When we started collecting agreements from thesis authors agreeing to put
> their theses online, I borrowed from various agreements, including
> Dukespace.  There’s this phrase “[we] will make the submission available
> to the public using a Creative Commons Attribution / Non-commercial / No
> derivative works license accompanied by a copyright statement indicating
> the author’s continuing rights.”  That sounded good to me, but it took me
> a while to realize that wasn’t EITHER a CC license OR a copyright
> statement.  I had some vague feeling that CC was more modern and supported
> sharing more than Copyright, but I didn’t know how to support that argument
> to students who asked.  I’m now wondering if the reason to do both is
> because CC is an interntional license and US Copyright applies only in the
> US and nations that have agreed to abide by US copyright.
>
>
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> This is what I’ve been putting in the metadata:
>
> “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives-4.0
> International License, © Copyright <author’s name>, 2017.”
>
>
>
> And then there’s the question of students who want to subsequently publish
> their content commercially.  Should I step back and just put simple
> copyright statements on these?
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>
> Cindy Harper
>
> E-services and periodicals librarian
>
> Virginia Theological Seminary
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> Bishop Payne Library, VTS Box 159
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> 3737 Seminary Road
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> Alexandria VA 22304
>
> charper at vts.edu
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> 703-461-1794 <(703)%20461-1794>
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Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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