Who owns our work?
Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin
UKSG 2010
Who owns our work?
Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin
UKSG 2010
whose?
Who owns our work?
Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin
UKSG 2010
whose?
has a stake in
Who owns our work?
Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin
UKSG 2010
whose?
has a stake in
labour, or
product?
which work?
Who owns our work?
Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin
UKSG 2010
whose?
has a stake in
sometimes
it’s a “what,”
not a “who”labour, or
product?
which work?
Who owns our work?
Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin
UKSG 2010
whose?
has a stake in
sometimes
it’s a “what,”
not a “who”labour, or
product?
which work??
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KEEP OUT?Keep whom
out of what?
KEEP OUT?Keep whom
out of what?
IDEAS.
KEEP OUT?Keep whom
out of what?
IDEAS.
IDEASmethods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results
KEEP OUT?Keep whom
out of what?
IDEAS.
IDEAS
ideas explicitly left out of copyright
methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results
KEEP OUT?Keep whom
out of what?
IDEAS.
IDEAS
ideas explicitly left out of copyright
patent, instead
methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results
KEEP OUT?Keep whom
out of what?
IDEAS.
IDEAS
ideas explicitly left out of copyright
patent, instead
publishing does not touch the patent system(except to impede it if done too soon)
methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results
KEEP OUT?Keep whom
out of what?
IDEAS.
IDEAS
ideas explicitly left out of copyright
patent, instead
publishing does not touch the patent system(except to impede it if done too soon)
libraries don’t, eitherexcept as sources of patent information
methods, tools, objects of study, preliminary results
“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!
IDEAS.
“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!
IDEAS.
“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!
Author lists are a crude instrument at best.
IDEAS.
“I own my ideas” already leaves a lot of contributors and contributions out!
Can publishing redress this inequity?
Does a “credit roll” do the job?
Author lists are a crude instrument at best.
IDEAS.
IDEAS.
PRE-PUBLICATIONOften creates copyrightable objects!
But treated either as completely open or as faux-“trade secrets”
IDEAS.
PRE-PUBLICATIONOften creates copyrightable objects!
But treated either as completely open or as faux-“trade secrets”
Minimal third-party processing at this point
Ergo minimal competing ownership claims
http://pantonprinciples.org/http://sciencecommons.org/
http://pantonprinciples.org/http://sciencecommons.org/
IDEAS. IDE AS
IDEAS. IDE ASIDEAS
IDEAS. IDE ASIDEAS
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IDEAS
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IDEAS.