Bundestag bringt Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht auf den Weg | wisspub.net

peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-07-01

Summary:

From Google's English: "The Bundestag yesterday with the majority of the CDU and FDP, the introduction of a secondary publication right decision.
Future has "[t] he author of a scientific contribution that has arisen in the context of at least half of publicly funded research and published in a periodical at least twice a year collection [..] even if he the publisher or editor has granted an exclusive right to use, the right to make the post after the expiry of twelve months from the date of first publication in the accepted manuscript version available to the public, as far as this serves no commercial purpose. The source of the first publication shall be indicated. A deviating agreement to the disadvantage of the copyright is invalid. "(Bundestag printed paper 17/13423 )
Is disappointed that the change requests by scientific organizations and the Federal Council on the secondary use rights were not considered. A particular problem is the narrow scope of the Act. Thus, the secondary publication rights adopted only focused publications that arise in the context of non-university and externally funded research. This restriction has been criticized by the Federal Council and the Alliance of Scientific Organizations as discrimination of women scientists at universities. In addition, an embargo period of twelve months on the needs of STEM subjects will pass. Next are articles in anthologies that do not appear twice a year, are excluded. In addition, only the manuscript version of an article on the repository may be published.
These limitations in the secondary exploitation rights were already in the beginning of the month consultation discussed in Rechtsauschuss. There, the majority of the language experts for anchoring the secondary publication rights, and criticized the planned restrictions...."

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http://wisspub.net/2013/06/28/bundestag-bringt-zweitveroffentlichungsrecht-auf-den-weg/

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Date tagged:

07/01/2013, 11:08

Date published:

07/01/2013, 07:08