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

[Ours, Mike]

As Melissa stated, CC is a set of licenses used by copyright holders to set
how "open" their online work is to others. Look at
https://creativecommons.org/ for a complete explanation. I like to
encourage a CC license for works in our repository, but that is the
copyright holder's decision.
Best practice would be to have the agreement form for your repository
include a section where the author selects which, if any, level of open
access they want to provide. If an author intends to publish the work
commercially, then they should check with their publisher about the
publisher's policies regarding placing the work in a repository.
SHERPA/ROMEO, http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php, has an extensive,
but not complete database of publisher policies.

Hope this helps,

Mike

Michael Ours
Scholarly Communications & Digital Services Librarian
Knight-Capron Library
Lynchburg College
1501 Lakeside Dr., Lynchburg, VA 24501-3113
434/544-8206               FAX: 434/544-8499ours.m at lynchburg.edu



On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca> wrote:

> "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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cindy Harper
>>
>> E-services and periodicals librarian
>>
>> Virginia Theological Seminary
>>
>> Bishop Payne Library, VTS Box 159
>>
>> 3737 Seminary Road
>>
>> Alexandria VA 22304
>>
>> charper at vts.edu
>>
>> 703-461-1794 <(703)%20461-1794>
>>
>>
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Michael Ours

Scholarly Communications & Digital Services Librarian

Knight-Capron Library

Lynchburg College

1501 Lakeside Dr., Lynchburg, VA 24501-3113

434/544-8206               FAX: 434/544-8499

ours.m at lynchburg.edu
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