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peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-28

Summary:

"Having been released at the same time as the first announcement of Plan S, a very important modification of the Belgian copyright law has gone somewhat unnoticed and it should not have! It is indeed a major groundbreaker in the open access to public research communication. The law now allows authors of publicly funded research articles to retain the right to make their original manuscripts freely available, even if otherwise specified in their contract with the publisher.  In terms of the legal protection of the researchers facing the increasingly frequent constraint on the part of funding bodies to make their publications available in Open Access, this law is of paramount importance. To my knowledge, it is the most progressive exception to a national copyright law worldwide to date...."

Link:

https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2018/12/27/a-small-change-in-a-law-giant-leap-for-knowledge-sharing/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.legislation oa.copyright oa.belgium oa.green oa.repositories oa.secondary_pub_rights

Date tagged:

12/28/2018, 09:28

Date published:

12/28/2018, 10:59