Re: Fair-Use/Schmair-Use...

2009-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Charles Oppenheim c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk wrote (in JISC-REPOSITORIES): Arthur [Sale] is wrong on his final point.  When an author assigns copyright to a publisher, the author gives away all rights.  It is equivalent to selling your house,

The German problem with OA

2009-02-14 Thread Arthur Sale
Klaus Graf   Thank you for your clear expression of what the German problem is.   I can fully understand the difficulty of changing a Constitution - Australia's Constitution allows the Queen of England to disallow any law of Australia, but Australian jurists on the High Court are unanimous

Re: The German problem with OA

2009-02-14 Thread Klaus Graf
Unfortunately it isn't enough to read the German constitution. You have also to read the influential legal interpretations and court decisions. I have made a suggestion for a university mandate in 2007 at http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4369539/ But I have to take into account that not only