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The Basics of Open Access

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This access includes individuals or institutions subscribing to the journal or people paying for access to individual articles. For researchers, this means submitting an article to a journal and, if it’s accepted, the journal pays for it to be peer reviewed and then for it to be published. How Open Access is Different.

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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization

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After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Why Emerging Life Science Companies Must Address Copyright Compliance

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Ignoring Copyright is Risky Business Research in the life sciences depends in part on the ability to acquire and share scientific information, particularly journal articles, in a timely manner. It’s important to know, however, there are many types of open-access licenses. Why does it matter, and what can you do?

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3 Count: Legalized Piracy

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1: Russia Mulls Making Software Piracy Legal and Patent Licensing Compulsory. However, one of the common uses of it is for researchers to publish copies of papers that they have completed. The issue is that many of those papers have been published in various academic journals, which own the rights to them.

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Missing Revenue in the Global Flip: Getting the Open Access Math Right

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While the US policy differs from Plan S in that it purports to be “agnostic” toward business models, the end result, the flipping of hybrid/subscription journals to fully-OA, may be the same. cOAlition S also mandates that articles apply a CC BY license to be considered fully Open Access in keeping with the Berlin and related declarations.

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Compulsory License on Mira Behn’s Autobiography, and Stricter Test of Similarity of Marks for Medicinal Products

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Kirloskar Press, the Bombay High Court (BHC) began proceedings on what may become the first instance of a literary work being compulsory licensed in India. As such, the petitioner approached the court under Section 32 of the Copyright Act for a compulsory license. Recently, in the matter of Anil G Karkhanis v.

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The Digital Age of Journalism: My Placement at “The Globe and Mail”

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On my very first day, my supervisor (thankfully) lent me a copy of The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople by David Tollen to start familiarizing myself with these themes.