Presented at the UK Serials Group 2010 conference, 13 April 2010.

1. Who owns our work?
Dorothea Salo
University of Wisconsin
UKSG 2010

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University of Wisconsin
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7. Photo: jurvetson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2798315677/

8. KEEP OUT?
Keep whom
out of what?

9. KEEP OUT?
Keep whom
out of what?
IDEAS.

10. IDEAS KEEP OUT?
Keep whom
methods, tools, objects of
study, preliminary results out of what?
IDEAS.

11. IDEAS KEEP OUT?
Keep whom
methods, tools, objects of
study, preliminary results out of what?
ideas explicitly left out of
copyright
IDEAS.

12. IDEAS KEEP OUT?
Keep whom
methods, tools, objects of
study, preliminary results out of what?
ideas explicitly left out of
copyright
patent, instead
IDEAS.

13. IDEAS KEEP OUT?
Keep whom
methods, tools, objects of
study, preliminary results out of what?
ideas explicitly left out of
copyright
patent, instead
publishing does not touch
the patent system
(except to impede it if done too soon)
IDEAS.

14. IDEAS KEEP OUT?
Keep whom
methods, tools, objects of
study, preliminary results out of what?
ideas explicitly left out of
copyright
patent, instead
publishing does not touch
the patent system
(except to impede it if done too soon)
libraries don’t, either IDEAS.
except as sources of patent
information

15. “I own my ideas”
already leaves a lot
of contributors and
contributions out!
IDEAS.

16. “I own my ideas”
already leaves a lot
of contributors and
contributions out!
IDEAS.

17. “I own my ideas”
already leaves a lot
of contributors and
contributions out!
IDEAS.
Author lists are
a crude instrument at best.

18. “I own my ideas”
already leaves a lot
of contributors and
contributions out!
IDEAS.
Author lists are
a crude instrument at best.
Can publishing redress
this inequity?
Does a “credit roll”
do the job?

21. PRE-PUBLICATION
Often creates
copyrightable objects!
But treated either as IDEAS.
completely open or as
faux-“trade secrets”

22. PRE-PUBLICATION
Often creates
copyrightable objects!
But treated either as IDEAS.
completely open or as
faux-“trade secrets”
Minimal third-party
processing at this point
Ergo minimal competing
ownership claims

24. http://pantonprinciples.org/
http://sciencecommons.org/

25. http://pantonprinciples.org/
http://sciencecommons.org/

26. IDEAS. IDE AS

27. IDEAS
IDE AS
IDEAS.

28. IDEAS
IDE AS
IDEAS.
£££

29. Photo: Old Sarge, http://www.flickr.com/photos/old_sarge/100926333/

30. IDEAS
IDE AS

31. IDEAS
X
X IDE AS

32. IDEAS
X
X IDE AS

33. IDEAS
X
X IDE AS
REUSE

34. IDEAS
X
X IDE AS
REUSE PAYMENT

35. £££ vs.

36. £££ vs.
IMPACT

37. £££ vs.
ACCESS

38. £££
ACCESS

39. £££
ACCESS

40. vs.

45. Thank you!
• All clip art by “nicubunu,” via
http://openclipart.org/ IDEAS.
• This presentation is available
under a Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 United States
license.
• dorothea.salo@gmail.com
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