Droit d’auteur et numérique : où en est-on ?

"[...] Le passage du papier au numérique modifie considérablement la manière dont les oeuvres sont reproduites, diffusées, exploitées. Dans ce mouvement perpétuel des technologies et des usages, le droit semble avoir du mal à s’adapter. Celui qui régit l’exercice du droit d’auteur dans le numérique est fait d’un empilement des lois partielles et récentes, sans grande cohérence. De fait, les interprétations qui en sont données peuvent être contradictoires et évolutives dans le temps. Aux professionnels de l’édition qui demandent ce qui est légal et ce qui ne l’est pas, les juristes ne peuvent pas toujours apporter de réponse tranchée. [...]"

(source: Université d’été de l’édition électronique ouverte, CLEO)

S.I.Lex en parle dans ce billet:

Réutiliser des images en ligne : entre Copyright, Copyleft et … Copydown ?

(22/09/09)

The Public Index

"The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York  Law School. We are a group of professors, students, and volunteers who believe that the Google Book Search lawsuit and settlement deserve a full,  careful, and thoughtful public discussion. The Public Index is a site for  people from all points of view to learn from each other about the  settlement and join together to make their voices heard in the public debate."

(source: D. P. Dillard, 29/07/09)

Klog signale:

"Des éditeurs européens viennent de signer la "Déclaration de Hambourg" pour qu'une loi contrôle l'accès en ligne aux informations de presse. Un extrait : " Numerous providers are using the work of authors, publishers and broadcasters without paying for it. Over the long term, this threatens the production of high-quality content and the existence of independent journalism. For this reason, we advocate strongly urgent improvements in the protection of intellectual property on the Internet".

Plus d'infos : Article de Ars Technica " European publishers want a law to control online news access" et la déclaration sur le Site European Publishers Council. [...]"

"Next-Generation" Federated Search: Critical for Intellectual Property Research

"Next-generation federated search technologies are quickly becoming an essential and indispensable tool for attorneys, paralegals, expert witnesses, and owners of IP to create, protect, monitor and litigate their intellectual property portfolios.
Such technology provides a significant advantage over traditional forms of search, because it greatly speeds research; helps ensure a more comprehensive search; provides real-time results; can include social networking information from Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and others; and most importantly, keeps researchers apprised of new material on a daily basis. [...]"

(source: DeepWeb Technologies / via Federated Search, 11/07/09)

Reuse of material in the context of education and research

Ce document, réalisé par la SURF Foundation et paru en néerlandais en 2008, est désormais disponible en anglais.

"[...] The rise of the Internet and other new ICT tools have led to drastic changes in the options for distribution and reuse. These changes demand a reorientation in the rules for sharing educational and research materials.

Since sharing educational and research materials is high on the agenda of Dutch higher education and research institutions, SURFdirect and Creative Commons examined the different Open Content licences that are available and that will make clear to reusers what they are permitted to do with material held in repositories.

SURFdirect has indicated that the choice of licence must not create barriers to the future use of educational and research material, that it can be applied at both research universities and universities of applied sciences [hogescholen], and that this can in fact be done in 80% of cases, this report recommends using the most liberal Creative Commons licence for textual output:

On the basis of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Netherlands Licence, users of the licensed work are permitted to copy it, distribute it, and pass it on, and produce derivative works and distribute them on condition that the work is attributed to its author. This licence freely permits commercial use and derivative works as long as users comply with the requirements regarding attribution. These comprise not only giving the name of the author but also the obligation to clearly designate derivative works as such. [...]"

(source: liste JISC-Repositories, 08/07/09)

Deanie Oueblog signale le lancement par l'ADBS d'un réseau collaboratif dédié au droit de l'information:

- L’ADBS et le droit de l’information
- La Propriété Intellectuelle
- Données personnelles / liberté d’expression
- Textes (lois et décrets)
- Jurisprudence

Wolfram|Alpha’s Terms and Conditions

Dans ce billet, Brian Kelly passe en revue les "termes et conditions" d'utilisateur du moteur de recherche (non sans humour):

[...] If you make results from Wolfram|Alpha available to anyone else, or incorporate those results into your own documents or presentations, you must include attribution indicating that the results and/or the presentation of the results came from Wolfram|Alpha. Some Wolfram|Alpha results include copyright statements or attributions linking the results to us or to third-party data providers, and you may not remove or obscure those attributions or copyright statements. Whenever possible, such attribution should take the form of a link to Wolfram|Alpha, either to the front page of the website or, better yet, to the specific query that generated the results you used.

So  if I ask Wolfram|Alpha what 1+1 is, if I published the result ‘2′ I must provide a link back to Wolfram|Alpha.  And if I ask “What were the dates of the second World War?” I need to provide a similar link before using the answer “1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945″. [...]"

(source: UK Web Focus, 03/07/09)

Twitter et le droit_d’auteur : des relations décidément complexes!

Suite et précisions du billet suivant.

(source: S.I.Lex, 27/06/09)

Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 4

"This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical.

See the Google Book Search Library Partners page for a list of library participants.

An archive of prior versions of the bibliography is available."

(source: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)