Another not-lawyer here. ☺ Essentially, the person who owns the copyright (usually but not always the author) has the right to determine whether, how, and by whom copies of the work (either print or electronic) can be made.
If the copyright holder gives someone permission to make copies, that’s called a license. Eg for something to be put on a repository, the copyright holder has to grant permission (ie a license) to the repository to make a copy. If they’re only granting permission to the repository and not to anyone else then it’s appropriate to display “all rights reserved”. But the copyright holder can choose to grant other licenses, like a Creative Commons license. If they did that, they should display the CC license information instead of “all rights reserved” because they’re no longer reserving all rights – they’re granting some rights, and reserving some rights, and these are described by the CC license. It’s always easy for a copyright holder to grant new permissions – so if something you own is “all rights reserved” you can change that to a CC license. But it’s harder to take away permissions, so if it already has a CC license it would be difficult or maybe impossible to change it back to “all rights reserved”. (More information about Creative Commons licenses is at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ - the bottom of the page links to translations in other languages.) Deborah From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joseph Frank Rogani Sent: Friday, 30 November 2018 4:54 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [dspace-community] licences and copyright Hello again, I am not a lawyer either, but I agree there is a contradiction. It also depends on what kind of document you are depositing: if it is a Ph.D., say, unless it has embargoes or patent restrictions, it should be open, though respecting citations in case of use. What I actually meant is that Abdulrahman should go for a CCL, leaving the author free to decide (is he the author?) which permissions to give for the use of the item. I don't know if you agree on this. Kind regards Joseph -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/<https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community<https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout<https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. ________________________________ "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system." -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
