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A comprehensive proposal for reforming copyright law to ensure sustainable public access to research and scholarship.

Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support—and the pandemic’s demonstration of the importance of open access for scientific progress—the scholarly publishing market is failing to deliver open access quickly enough. In Copyright’s Broken Promise, John Willinsky presents the case for reforming copyright law so that it supports, rather than impedes, public access to research and scholarship. He draws on the legal strategy of statutory licensing to set out the terms and structures by which the Copyright Act could ensure that publishers are fairly compensated for providing immediate open access.
 
What sets Willinsky’s analysis apart is its focus on the current state of scholarly publi

Copyrights Broken Promise How the Law Now Impedes

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      Publisher MIT Press Ltd
      Published 6 December 2022
      ISBN-13 9780262544412
      978-0262544412
      ISBN-10 0262544415
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      Law Intellectual property law

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A comprehensive proposal for reforming copyright law to ensure sustainable public access to research and scholarship.

      Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support—and the pandemic’s demonstration of the importance of open access for scientific progress—the scholarly publishing market is failing to deliver open access quickly enough. In Copyright’s Broken Promise, John Willinsky presents the case for reforming copyright law so that it supports, rather than impedes, public access to research and scholarship. He draws on the legal strategy of statutory licensing to set out the terms and structures by which the Copyright Act could ensure that publishers are fairly compensated for providing immediate open access.
       
      What sets Willinsky’s analysis apart is its focus on the current state of scholarly publi

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