totally agree!
Charles
Professor Charles Oppenheim
--- On Mon, 14/5/12, Pippa Smart <pippa.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Pippa Smart <pippa.sm...@gmail.com>
Subject: [GOAL] Re: UK Defamation Bill and OA
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal@eprints.org>
Date: Monday, 14 May, 2012, 11:34
Is the inclusion of "etc" in the heading of the section meant to signify other
academic publications? ("Peer-reviewed statement in scientific of academic
journal etc.")
- if so it will need to be somewhat better defined
Pippa
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On 11 May 2012 09:56, David Smith <david.sm...@cabi.org> wrote:
In singling out peer reviewed scholarly articles, it would also seem to imply
no additional protection for material in scholarly books or other longer form
content.
It does raise an interesting question as to whether somebody could go after a
pre-print even if it was in a published journal. Or whether a paper in review
has any form of protection – only a problem if you’ve made it public (via a
repository) first I guess.
Are there any defamation cases that pertain to published literature? The only
thing I can think of that comes close is the libel case by the British
Association of Chiropractors against the author Simon Singh
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8621880.stm)
but that was against an article/blog in the Guardian.
David
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From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org]
On Behalf Of CHARLES OPPENHEIM
Sent: 11 May 2012 09:27
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] UK Defamation Bill and OA
This has just been published -
see http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0005/13005.pdf.
Clause 6 gives special protection
against defamation actions to peer reviewed scholarly articles (the first time
peer review has figured in a piece of legislation??). This is something that
scholarly publishers will no doubt pick up on as an argument against unrefereed
green OA.
Charles
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