Science Commons translation project and Fair Use survey

Science Commons translation project; Fair Use online survey Tomoaki Watanabe Creative Commons Japan Creative Commons Asia & Pacific Meeting June.5.2010. Seoul For licensing information, see the last page.

Science Commons Translation project
What it is:
At http://sciencecommons.jp
Translates articles and documents from Science Commons.
Raise awareness and promotes sharing of scientific data and scholarly materials through the site.
The project is a friendly independent project.
What it is not:
Not SC Japan (an official affiliate) – which takes some formal paperwork and review process.
Not a part of CC Japan. Some CCJP – SCtp members know each other. CCJP’s legal lead is on the board of SCTp

Science Commons Translation project
Members – scientists, translators of patent documents, technologists in science-related field. Increasing rapidly (now about a dozen).
Main activities – translation
Other activities – networking among scientists and other interested people
Future prospects – not decided yet
Origin – Spun out of a symposium during the open access week

Fair Use online survey
26Questions, 900+ respondents  40pg report
 Submitted to a government panel
No, not a representative sampling. (sorry!)
Driven by a concern – users’ voices are mostly absent from copyright reform discussions.
Expertise required – legal, research (survey), statistical, & technical (google spreadsheet, excel, etc.)
No budget.

Resources
Developing questions – how best to design questions (legally meaningful, suitable for analysis)
Publicizing the survey – reach a wide range of people
Analyzing and writing a report
CC JP staff 3 consistently, heavily involved, + 5-7 partially involved,
6 external advisors – legal and statistical
Partners in publicizing stage – twitter notables, UGM sites, scholars, etc.
Google spreadsheet + Excel + Word
Time consuming: selecting questions/ wording neutrally / cleaning data / drawing charts

Major findings
More liberal copyright regime wanted.
(71% liberal, 15% strict, 14% don’t know)
Creators, money-making creators, users all want liberal regime equally, it seemed.
Accidental inclusion and some other uses deemed fair more widely among money-making creators than non-earning creators.
Fair use (61%) v. specific exemptions (20%)
Fair use on moral rights yes(40) v. no(36) v. d/n(24)

Permissive/ Strict prefecence No significant difference among creators, money-making creators, and users.

Fair Use wanted by many

Should fair use apply to moral rights?

(very subjective) Evaluation
Good experience
Time consuming, needs expertise
Called for data-driven policy-making
Delivered Internet users’ voices to the policy-making table
Effects limited
People more pro-fair use than we expected, but not in all aspects.

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