On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2012 16:23:59 Vickram Crishna wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Pranesh Prakash > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >Dear all, > > > >I'm sorry it's taken me this long to pass this on. Here's the > > > >NDSAP-2012. Some positive features of the draft version, such as > > > >linking of the 'negative list' to the RTI Act, are not present in the > > > >final version. > > > > > > Pranesh > > > > Is there clarity on 'ownership' of research documents produced in > > Universities funded by the Government? Meaning, at the very least, for > > research funded with government money. > > As per copyright law ownership will automatically rest with the author. > Unless > the university makes the author sign a cc-?? licence, I can see the above > failing in court if an author chooses to prevent publication. > However I am not at all sure of any copyright terms being attached to > funding. >
Much of the problem relating to Open Knowledge initiatives wrt scientific research (paid for with public money) stems from the fact that universities, where the research is carried out, and which provide the research with implicit validation (not that the research is not subsequently subjected to independent validation, if it happens to have some impact), encourage, and in some cases virtually force, the author(s) to publish in journals of scientific importance, most of which then claim some sort of rights to the work, certainly to the extent that they discourage the author from disseminating the report widely. So the author ends up surrendering the copyright to the publication. I am not sure if Pranesh's clarification covers this, precisely. > -- > Rgds > JTD > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- Vickram Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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