Deposit or licence agreements for online reuse of copyright material

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Deposit or licence agreements for online reuse of copyright material

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Asked 3 years ago by Padraic
Latest answer from Kevin Hawkins

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Padraic
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Hi folks,

Can anyone point me to archive / library / repository deposit agreements which allow for online reuse and / or publishing of in copyright material?

I have seen some agreements which transfer copyright to the repository institution. I am interested in these but also in possible agreements which retain copyright in most cases.

If you can send a link to freely available online examples that would be great. If you would prefer not to make your agreement public that's also fine, all correspondence will be confidential.

Padraic

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Posted 3 years ago Permalink
Dorothea Salo
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Not quite sure what you're asking? As an erstwhile institutional-repository manager, I have yet to see an IR deposit agreement that is an actual copyright TRANSFER. License, yes -- repos need depositors to grant sufficient permission for the repo to hold, distribute, and preserve the work -- but that's not at ALL the same as a copyright transfer.

I also have yet to see the IR that gives two hoots what else happens by way of authors/depositors publishing their deposited content, or putting a copy in another repo. I never did.

Posted 3 years ago Permalink
Kevin Hawkins
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All the institutional repositories I can think of only require a license for the repository to reproduce, not transfer of copyright. (If transfer were required, it would prevent IRs from including preprints or postprints of journal articles published under green open access.) See, for example, http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/static/about/deepblueip.html .

Posted 3 years ago Permalink
Padraic
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Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your answer. Apologies for the delay in responding to it.

I am thinking of a situation where an author or their estate might allow a text (or version of a text) to be made available online - in images of the manuscript, an ocr'd text file or evn in formatted TEI while still retaining copyright in other cases.

Posted 3 years ago Permalink
Kevin Hawkins
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Replying to @Padraic's post:

Right, so the rightsholder keeps the copyright but grants the the institution a license to make it available online. The Deep Blue agreements fit this situation.

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