From pranesh at cis-india.org Mon Oct 10 13:02:56 2011 From: pranesh at cis-india.org (Pranesh Prakash) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:02:56 +0530 Subject: [Commons-Law] Putting developing country research online In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E929FA8.2010005@cis-india.org> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: FW: Putting developing country research online Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:28:17 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam Friends: This information should reach all development -related researchers and research institutions in India, such as ICSSR institutions, universities, NGOs and even institutions like IISc and IITs. Arun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Derek Law* > Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM Subject: FW: Putting developing country research online To: "epublishingtrust at googlegroups.com " > For information Derek ________________________________________________________________________________________ Professor Derek Law Turnbull Building University of Strathclyde 155 George Street Glasgow G1 1RD United Kingdom Tel: +44 141 548 4997 The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263. ________________________________________ From: Helen Rehin [H.Rehin at ids.ac.uk ] Sent: 29 September 2011 10:04 To: ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [IFLA-L] Putting developing country research online With apologies for cross-posting – please see story below. New BLDS Digital Library is helping research from developing countries enjoy a wider global readership With so many library users now expecting to access information through search engines, developing country publications tend to get overlooked in favour of the wealth of research available online from American and European academic institutions. The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) has the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe and over half of it originates from developing countries. But until now, much of the BLDS physical collection has only been available to visitors to the library or users of its Document Delivery service. BLDS is hoping that its newly-launched Digital Library will help redress the situation by making developing country research more accessible and visible online The new service, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, has been created to help decades of research from developing country institutions enjoy a wider global readership. BLDS is working with partner research institutes in Africa and Asia, to digitise their printed publications and host them online so they can be easily found through search engines. Nearly 600 papers have been digitised so far from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and India, with more to be added in coming months as BLDS continues building partnerships with research institutes. The publications in the BLDS Digital Library are being made available through a Creative Commons licence which enables future sharing and dissemination of this content by others. For more information on the BLDS Digital Library, contact Henry Rowsell> or visit the BLDS Global Projects webpage at http://blds.ids.ac.uk/global-projects Best, Helen Rehin Deputy Librarian BLDS (British Library for Development Studies) Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE Tel: +44 (0)1273 915660 Email: h.rehin at ids.ac.uk > Website: www.blds.ids.ac.uk BLDS is funded by DFID (through the Mobilising Knowledge for Development Programme) and IDS. ** NEW ** The BLDS Digital Library gives you free online access to decades of research from research institutes in Africa and Asia. http://blds.ids.ac.uk/digital-library This message is for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of IDS. 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Arun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Derek Law* > Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM Subject: FW: Putting developing country research online To: "epublishingtrust at googlegroups.com " > For information Derek ________________________________________________________________________________________ Professor Derek Law Turnbull Building University of Strathclyde 155 George Street Glasgow G1 1RD United Kingdom Tel: +44 141 548 4997 The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263. ________________________________________ From: Helen Rehin [H.Rehin at ids.ac.uk ] Sent: 29 September 2011 10:04 To: ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [IFLA-L] Putting developing country research online With apologies for cross-posting – please see story below. New BLDS Digital Library is helping research from developing countries enjoy a wider global readership With so many library users now expecting to access information through search engines, developing country publications tend to get overlooked in favour of the wealth of research available online from American and European academic institutions. The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) has the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe and over half of it originates from developing countries. But until now, much of the BLDS physical collection has only been available to visitors to the library or users of its Document Delivery service. BLDS is hoping that its newly-launched Digital Library will help redress the situation by making developing country research more accessible and visible online The new service, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, has been created to help decades of research from developing country institutions enjoy a wider global readership. BLDS is working with partner research institutes in Africa and Asia, to digitise their printed publications and host them online so they can be easily found through search engines. Nearly 600 papers have been digitised so far from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and India, with more to be added in coming months as BLDS continues building partnerships with research institutes. The publications in the BLDS Digital Library are being made available through a Creative Commons licence which enables future sharing and dissemination of this content by others. For more information on the BLDS Digital Library, contact Henry Rowsell> or visit the BLDS Global Projects webpage at http://blds.ids.ac.uk/global-projects Best, Helen Rehin Deputy Librarian BLDS (British Library for Development Studies) Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE Tel: +44 (0)1273 915660 Email: h.rehin at ids.ac.uk > Website: www.blds.ids.ac.uk BLDS is funded by DFID (through the Mobilising Knowledge for Development Programme) and IDS. ** NEW ** The BLDS Digital Library gives you free online access to decades of research from research institutes in Africa and Asia. http://blds.ids.ac.uk/digital-library This message is for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of IDS. Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE Tel: +44 (0)1273 606261; Fax: +44 (0)1273 621202 IDS, a charitable company limited by guarantee: Registered Charity No. 306371; Registered in England 877338; VAT No. GB 350 899914 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From pranesh at cis-india.org Mon Oct 10 13:27:22 2011 From: pranesh at cis-india.org (Pranesh Prakash) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:27:22 +0530 Subject: [Commons-Law] [A2k] EU signs MoU on Key Principles on the Digitisation and Making Available of Out-of-Commerce Works In-Reply-To: <4E7AB851.5000406@cis-india.org> References: <4E7AB851.5000406@cis-india.org> Message-ID: <4E92A562.4070301@cis-india.org> Dear all, I wonder if anyone has any comments on how this might not be a good development. Regards, Pranesh Pranesh Prakash wrote [2011-09-22 09:53]: > Dear all, > I believe this is a very interesting and important development in the > EU. They've taken a non-legislative approach to something even broader > than the orphan-works problem: the out-of-commerce book digitisation > problem. > > The FAQ on this: > http://goo.gl/L30Ew > > From the FAQ: > ## 4. What are the main elements of the MoU? > It is sector specific, providing solutions for books and learned journals. > It is based on voluntary licensing agreements to be negotiated in the > country of first publication of the works. > The determination of the out-of-commerce status will be decided in the > country of first publication according to criteria defined by the parties. > The types of use of the works will be agreed by the parties in each > licensing agreement. > It foresees the need for solutions to situations of collective > management when not all right holders are represented by a collecting > society. > > ## 5. Why a MoU? Why is the Commission not proposing a legislative > initiative? > Copyright holders, whether authors or publishers, are the ones who can > decide whether or not to permit libraries or other cultural institutions > to digitise out-of-commerce works contained in their collections and put > them online as part of a digital library project. Through voluntary > agreements interested parties can negotiate mutually acceptable terms > and conditions for the online exploitation of out-of-commerce works. > This is preferable to legislation that could be too prescriptive and > lack the flexibility to provide solutions adapted to the needs of > particular users and the specificities of particular sectors while fully > respecting copyright. > > The Key Principles contained in the MoU signed today contain the > necessary elements to ensure sufficient flexibility enabling authors and > publishers to mandate collective management organisations to grant > national and multi-territorial licences to those libraries and other > publicly accessible cultural institutions wanting to digitise and make > available out-of-commerce books and learned journals in their > collections. In turn, the MoU recognises that legislative backing for > these licensing solutions voluntarily developed by stakeholders may be > needed in some Member States in order to cover situations where licences > include right holders that are not members of a collective management > organization. > > ## 6. How do out-of-commerce works differ from orphan works? > There is one fundamental difference between them: orphan works are works > where the copyright owners are not known or cannot be found so it is not > possible to get the necessary authorisations to use their works. By > contrast, the right holders of out-of-commerce works are generally known > so a user such as a library will know whom to contact to get the > necessary permissions to use the works. Whereas for the use of orphan > works, the key element is the determination of the "orphan works" > status, for the use of "out-of-commerce" works, the key element is how > to facilitate their licensing (without having to determine whether > within a collection of out-of-commerce works there are some that may, or > may not, be orphans). > > ## 9. Who are the signatories to the MoU? > The MoU was signed by the European Writers? Council (EWC), the > Federation of European Publishers (FEP), the European Publishers' > Council (EPC), the International Association of Scientific, Technical > and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Bureau of Library, > Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA), the Conference of > European National Librarians (CENL), the Association of European > Research Libraries (LIBER), European Visual Artists (EVA), the European > Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of > Reprographic Rights Organisations (IFRRO). > > > _______________________________________________ > A2k mailing list > A2k at lists.keionline.org > http://lists.keionline.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k_lists.keionline.org -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From pranesh at cis-india.org Wed Oct 12 02:04:01 2011 From: pranesh at cis-india.org (Pranesh Prakash) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:04:01 +0530 Subject: [Commons-Law] =?iso-8859-1?q?Beyonc=E9_v_De_Keersmaeker=3A_can_yo?= =?iso-8859-1?q?u_copyright_a_dance_move=3F?= Message-ID: <4E94A839.203@cis-india.org> # Beyoncé v De Keersmaeker: can you copyright a dance move? # Works of art often reference other works of art, so is the Belgian choreographer right to accuse the R&B star of plagiarism in her new music video? To read about Beyoncé Knowles and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in the same sentence is, well, weird. Beyoncé is ... OK, you know who Beyoncé is, and De Keersmaeker is an avant garde Belgian choreographer. This week they've been brought together by De Keersmaeker's claim that the Texas-born R&B artist has plagiarised a couple of her experimental ballets, Achterland and Rosas Danst Rosas. And she may well be right. Watch Beyoncé's new Countdown video, directed by Adria Petty , and watch Thierry De Mey's 1997 film Rosas Danst Rosas (named after De Keersmaeker's company) and you can see remarkably similar moves in the two works. They're a tiny part of the whole, but they're there. Initially, De Keersmaeker was pretty acid about the whole thing, saying that she'd seen local school kids perform her work better, and expressing amazement at the Beyoncé team's effrontery. "I'm not mad, but this is plagiarism. This is stealing," she told Studio Brussel. And up to a point you have to sympathise with her; the notion of the artist ripped off by the corporate machine is not an edifying one. Petty's attitude is certainly high-handed. "I brought Beyoncé a number of references and we picked some out together. Most were German modern-dance references, believe it or not," she told MTV, possibly under the impression that she was referencing the work of the late Pina Bausch, rather than that of the Belgian (and very much alive) De Keersmaeker. But has De Keersmaeker's work or career been damaged in any way? It would be a hard case to make, even if her copyright has technically been infringed. Works of art often reference other works of art. In her ballet D'un soir un jour De Keersmaeker includes part of the Vaslav Nijinsky choreography of L'Après Midi d'un Faune and a snatch of the Antonioni film Blow-Up. Beyoncé's videos almost always contain references to films or other performance artworks. Video Phone, for example, includes a Reservoir Dogs tableau. Naughty Girl was inspired by Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon. Why Don't You Love Me is a homage to actor and pin-up girl Betty Page, and Deja Vu a part-tribute to Basic Instinct. The Countdown video gives us a three-and-a-half-minute montage of 60s and 70s pop culture, with Beyoncé channelling, among others, Audrey Hepburn in Funny Girl, Monica Vitti in Modesty Blaise, Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, and Diana Ross in her Supremes manifestation. It's a very slick, very new-retro piece of film-making, and borrowed imagery is absolutely the point of it. For directors such as Petty, no artwork is fixed in its original form. Everything is out there, ready to be sampled, recycled, recontextualised. But there are, as De Keersmaeker points out, "protocols and consequences to such actions, and I can't imagine that (Beyoncé) and her team are not aware of it". De Keersmaeker is a complex woman. Shy, intense, and often spiky with journalists, she is not known for her light touch. But she is held in great affection by her dancers, and in her most recent statement she notes that Beyoncé was four months pregnant at the time of the Countdown filming, just as she was in 1996, when de Mey's film was made. So today, she generously concludes: "I can only wish her the same joy that my daughter brought me." It's a graceful reaction. But it may not be the end of the story, and dance aficionados will no doubt be parsing De Keersmaeker's famously testing work with some stringency. Was that a quote from the Bootylicious video? Was that phrase borrowed from Freakum Dress? Next Previous Blog home © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: