On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:56 PM, A. Mani <a.mani....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, narendra sisodiya > <narendra.sisod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 03 Mar 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: > >> > No , this do not happen, You write a book, most publisher just print > >> > your name as author but copyright and license to distribute is with > >> > publisher. this is must like a IT company where coder (labor) write > >> > code and it goes into company account. > >> > >> Sorry, copyright vests with the original author. Pick up any book on > >> your shelf and look at the copyright on the publishing page, it will > >> invariably be with the author or the author's estate. > >> > >> Sorry , in most of the case copyright will not remain with author, > > If copyright is with author then multiple publishers will be able to > publish > > it, > > > That happens because publishers do not understand / or are confused. > Some of them require authors to sign 'copyright transfer forms', which > actually restricts the right to publish/ distribute the same work in > substantially similar form. But the vagueness in such agreements can > be exploited in legal situations. > > I doubt that publishers do not understand or are confused with the issue: They exploit the situation created in the times of the brick-and-mortar world where the distribution of material had a cost, and converted it into a business which involved copyright-transfer, often exploiting the content creator in the process. When we have a zero-cost for the distribution of digital content, they have no business continuing with the same paradigm, or at least should have no business...We have a similar argument for Open Access publication in the case of academic research, but this is not something that changes overnight. For this change to work, you need a distribution system that allows for the copyright to remain with the author. For those of us in Academia who had a peek at the internet before it burst onto the world, an immediate follow-through of mailing-lists/forums/irc which allowed short term/relatively synchronous multiuser communication bridging geographical seperation, was the creation of digital repositories: I believe the kick-start to open access was the Physics Arxiv [1] which should have changed the rules of the scientific publishing. For those not embedded within the Ivory Towers think Sourceforge for software, Flickr for images and You-tube for video. Merely the existence of a "free" distribution system is insufficient: The tension in exercising copyright is whether the creator is utilising a hobby or career-skill. In Open Source software, and Academia, open access/source is the given mantra - your career is made in the freedom to utilise the whole ecosystem even if you are expert in a niche area. It is instructive to look at the content of the Arxiv: very little Applied Science or Technology, almost entirely Mathematics and Theoretical Physics - the true artists of Academia, who create for the joy of creating, and require their work to be seen. However, almost all of them are supported through Govt. funding or philanthropy. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the Govt. take over from their parents in supporting their livelihood, enabling them to continue their teenage creative impulses into their careers. Those who earn from their creations, a proper infrastructure to commercialise their efforts is necessary. While shifting to a service model for software is easy, it is not clear how to do this with art, images or video/audio. I think we still need a a few more steps for the revolution to be complete in restoring the initial concept of copyright, and will enable the individual creator to monetize his invention/creation, while enabling its sharing and reuse . The distribution system, and the reuse of content, should involve a revenue-sharing model with the content creator. I am not sure if this exists...? Andrew Lynn. [1] Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
