[pp.int.general] Immediate action required!

[Reinier Bakels]

This is sort of paradoxical. SURF is related to universities. Can 
universities force their students and PhD candidates to grant copyright 
licences? That is what they currently actually do. For me as an external PhD 
candidate without university funding or support this was sort of a bad deal, 
and I refused.
Incidentally, this is yet another example (next to Open Source) where there 
is a need in copyright law to maintain the (moral) right of *disposal*, 
separate from the right of *exploitation*.

If the Red Cross has a collection, I am happy to donate, but if they grab 
the money from my purse themselves, I get very angry!

reinier
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "coretx" <coretx at piratenpartij.nl>
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> https://portaal.neth-er.eu/contenttypes/Artikelen/Artikel2452.aspx?Source=http%3A%2F%2Fportaal.neth-er.eu%2FDutch%2FPages%2Fdefault.aspx

A high profile pirate needs to do a quick respons.

I'll paste the content below;


The strange thing with pirates is that they quite often are proud to
be a pirate. Chances are pretty low that you meet a person saying: “Hi
I’m a criminal, just robbed another person”. Pirates, on the other
hand, give interviews about the benefits of hijacking ships in the
Gulf of Aden, or the benefits of free use of copyrighted material on
the Internet. More explicit: yes the sharing of copyrighted material
without paying royalties is called Internet piracy, and these Internet
Pirates are proud to be a pirate. They even participated in the 2009
European Parliament (EP) elections in Sweden and got more than 7% of
all Swedish votes, making it thereby the third largest political
party. Pirate Parties now exist in 33 countries.

The question that arises now is: should SURF become a member of the
Pirate Party? After all, the Dutch Higher Education sector has
declared 2009 to be ‘Open Access Year’. And doesn’t that mean Free
Access to all digital information? WRONG.

There are a lot of misunderstandings about Open Access and copyright.
It is essential to realize that the author, the intellectual creator,
is the holder of the copyright. He or she has several options to deal
with that copyright. From complete transfer of copyright to a
publisher, to licenses that do not require the exclusive transfer of
all rights. See copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl. Copyright therefore plays an
important role in the creation, distribution, and re-use of material
in the context of higher education and scientific/scholarly research.

In declaring 2009 the year of Open Access, we try to improve access to
knowledge, information and data. The central idea is that the results
of publicly financed research should also be available to the public.
That doesn’t imply that everything is available at no costs. Even if
the ‘Open Access’ model were to be applied globally, somebody has to
pay the bill for increased access to digital information. So, SURF
will NOT become a member of a Pirate Party.

by Wim Liebrand, director SURFfoundation (SURF)
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