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>Copyright scientifico per l’università e la ricerca. Intervento alla Tavola rotonda “Spazi e prospettive della Cultura in Digitale” al Convegno 'Diritto e Tecnologie Digitali per la Valorizzazione e l'accessibilità delle Conoscenze', Milano, 20 ottobre 2007
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Copyright scientifico per l’università e la ricerca. Intervento alla Tavola rotonda “Spazi e prospettive della Cultura in Digitale” al Convegno 'Diritto e Tecnologie Digitali per la Valorizzazione e l'accessibilità delle Conoscenze', Milano, 20 ottobre 2007
In the academic and scientific environment, intellectual property rights, author rights and copyright are strategic issues in the growth and development of research, which is possible only thanks to a dynamic access to knowledge. Scholarly communication is the process in which the outputs of research led in universities, research agencies or research centre are disseminated. It is high priority nowadays to support the dissemination of research intellectual outputs, which consists not only of articles but also of primary research data. Our current system based on author right represents an obstacle to scientific dissemination and, consequently, to a correct economic development. Open Access, the international movement dealing with the research world and the digital contents which spread in Europe (thanks to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge) and recently established also in Italy, encourages academics, scientists and researchers to disseminate their research outputs, that is to say to provide them open access. The aim of Open Access is the removal of any economic, legal and technical barrier which prevents the access to scientific information in order to guarantee the scientific and technological progress for the benefit of the whole humankind. Berlin5, the recent international conference hold at the University of Padua, comprised some sessions coping with the issue of rights management in order to make both the public opinion and the university administrators aware of this topic. The purpose was the one of stimulating the Government to take some action in order to protect the interests of the research environment appropriately. The current model defends the interests of a dozen of oligopolies which control the 75% of the scientific publishing market, causing great damage to the research public funds. The legislation concerning copyright should be modified in behalf of research and a scientific copyright, including a conscious right management that assures author and university’s rights, should be taken into account. It is necessary to encourage the Government to take into account the role of universities in the second thought on the law concerning copyright which is nowadays in process. Unfortunately, this is not actually taking place; the universities, although being considered the breeding ground of intellectual creativity for research and technology and the mainstay of the economic development in our country, still have no representatives in the re-organization of the Committee.
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