NOV 2 Creative Commons Policy Roundup

[Timothy Vollmer]

EU Member States Should Push To Improve Commission’s Disappointing Copyright Proposal

Last month the European Commission released its proposed changes to copyright in the EU. The proposal fails to deliver on the promise for a modern copyright law in Europe. Now the legislative focus shifts to the EU Member States, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union. Several Member States are currently engaged in national-level public consultations in response to the Commission’s proposition. Creative Commons affiliates across Europe have been sending letters calling for Member State ministries to help fix the Commission's flawed proposal. 

Upload Filtering Mandate Would Shred European Copyright Safe Harbor

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the most damaging aspects of the Commission's copyright proposal is the introduction of a provision that "requires large user-generated content platforms to reach agreements with copyright holders to adopt automated technologies that would scan content that users upload, and either block that content or pay royalties for it." The provision would apply to *all* works uploaded by users, and could even run afoul of existing European law (Article 14 or E-commerce Directive), which "gives conditional immunity to Internet platforms for user-uploaded content, and rules out the imposition of a general obligation to monitor such content."

‘Open In Action’ Requires Continuity and Solidarity with Fundamental Copyright Reform

Last week was Open Access Week 2016. #OAweek is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. "The work of open access needs to keep in clear view the ultimate goals of science and scholarship—a fundamental search for knowledge—that is now supercharged for sharing and collaboration to solve the world’s toughest scientific and social problems. But open access is not just about working to flip the default from closed to open. The open access movement should cooperate and collaborate with related communities of action, including the important work to rebalance the underlying systems of copyright to benefit creativity, innovation, and access to knowledge."

In Uruguay, 14 people convicted for making copies of educational resources

Last week, 14 people were convicted by an Uruguayan judge for the crime of making copies of educational resources. The defendants, owners of copy shops located near the University of the Republic (Universidad de la República) in Montevideo, have been sentenced to seven months in prison, although the judge has conditionally suspended the imprisonment.  

Biden presents five-year Cancer Moonshot plan

CC has been a contributor to the work of the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, a project led by Vice-President Biden to make a decade's worth of progress against cancer in half that time. We think that making immediate open access the default for publicly-funded research and data about cancer should be a top priority. The Cancer Moonshot released its final report, along with a 5 year strategic plan to keep the work going. 

The Case for Open Use Policies: Realizing the Full Value of Publicly Funded Information 

New America's Education Policy team has released a new policy report that calls for the open sharing of government information through the adoption of federal policies that ensure that the public has access and reuse rights to the digital outputs of grant funding. 

Reboot of the Library of Congress in service of open access to research and culture

Robert Darnton argues that the Library of Congress--under the new leadership of Carla Hayden--should champion open access to scientific and scholarly research. "She should correct the common misconceptions about its nature—the belief, for example, that it sacrifices peer review—and explain its benefits to university administrators and journal editors who are wary about changing traditional modes of diffusing research." 

Public Access to Congressional Research Reports

In the U.S., Congress pays for for research on a variety of policy topics. The Congressional Research Service is a sort of "think tank" for the legislature. That research has never been made available to the public--even though it could be quite useful for a broader non-technical audience, and the public paid for it. So someone did something about it and created a website that collects this research, and makes it broadly accessible. 

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[Carolina Botero]

Wow!!! thanks 

carolina

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Browne, Delia <Delia....@det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:

​thanks Tim - extremely informative. I really like these updates

Delia

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