New Copyright in Science: A Coffin Nail for Publishers? โ€“ iRights.info

frankhellwig's bookmarks 2017-06-25

Summary:

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"In the context of the unsatisfactory circumstances, the German scientific organizations joined forces to form a consortium in 2016 and pursue the goal of completing nationwide licensing agreements with major scientific publishers in the "DEAL" project. By pooling negotiation power, a "significant change is to be made against the current status quo in the negotiation, the content and the pricing". [...]

Anyone with such high profit margins in the market has no reason to change his business model. The development of innovative and meaningful models would be stimulated precisely by the proposed amendment to the law, since the publishing companies would only have an incentive to develop a better offer. On the other hand, there is a lack of effective competition in the existing priority of contract offers. [...]

The small economic success of most smaller publishing companies is actually a result of copyright: copyright creates a market where monopolistic competition prevails. One consequence of this is, for example, that a large part of the limited budget of the scientific libraries flows into the high profits of the large publishing houses - with the result that less is left for others. [...]

If the current legal situation has not kept small and medium-sized publishers from concentration, why should this change with a continuing prevalence of licensing models? [...]

Finally, if the profitability loss of smaller publishers is to be avoided by increasing the profits of the publishing industry (bigger cake), someone must pay for it. The "counter-financing" of higher profits by means of a license priority were then provided by scientific libraries, financed by tax credits. From the point of view of universities and libraries, this can only appear cynical."

Link:

https://irights.info/artikel/neues-urheberrecht-in-der-wissenschaft-ein-sargnagel-fuer-verlage/28524

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oa.new oa.publishing oa.germany oa.copyright oa.publishers

Date tagged:

06/25/2017, 06:07

Date published:

06/25/2017, 02:07