Whose Book Is It Anyway?: A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity

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"Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views - such as artist's perspectives, writer's perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives - that are too often marginalized or elided altogether. The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as intellectual property, copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing in a new light. Whose Book is it Anyway? is a timely and varied collection of essays. It asks us to reconceive our understanding of publishing, copyright and open access, and it is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of publishing.

"--Publisher's website.

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The Open Society Institute, a social justice initiative founded by billionaire George Soros [I agree with what something Soros founded says‽ 😱], describes the basic tenets of this open and accessible Internet:

“By ‘open access’ [...] we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”*

Cited in Ann Bartow, ‘Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance and Subordination’, Lewis & Clark Law Review*, 10.4 (2006), 869–84 (pp. 873–74).