OA and IP: Open access, digital copyright and marketplace competition

Learned Publishing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 283-288

  Harper, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 70350064239     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/20090404     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. 17 US 106A. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92 chap1.html#106a
2. Boyle, J. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2008, p. 209. http://www.thepublicdomain.org/down-load/
3. See, for examples, the section on 'Business models that work with the networked environment's strengths instead of against them' in Harper, G. 2008. Mass Digitization, and Copyright Law, Policy and Practice. University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property, Newsletter of the CIP, Autumn 2008. http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/ cip/newsletter/2008_09/news_autumn2008.html#leftarticle1
4. Actually, there are many examples in the physical world as well as the digital where all costs can be covered without limiting copying and distribution, but there will always be some types of work for which copyright meaningfully enables creation and distribution that would otherwise fall below optimal levels. Nevertheless, that fact may not justify the government's giving copyright monopolies to everyone for everything.
5. Lessig, L. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. New York, Penguin, 2008.
6. Suber, P. 2009. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 1 February 2009. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-09.htm
7. One may add here that having a state-granted monopoly freed authors from covering the costs of production through patronage. As a result, copyright provided the public benefit of supporting a wider range of voices than patrons would likely have chosen to support. Any suggestion that doing without monopoly would revisit upon us the costs of patron-age must necessarily ignore the prospect that patron- age, if it is a viable option in the future, will have to compete with many other business models, just as monopoly will. Authors will weigh its costs and benefits.
8. Litman, J. Digital Copyright. Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2000.