[Taxacom] scientific illustrations and access

[Quentin Groom]

Copyright is a burden for scientists that most of us don't need and goes
against the intension of science. Most of us want our work to be used. It
would be far better if we had to opt into copyright, rather than have it
imposed on us. It is even imposed on dead people who can't fight back.
I hope this assertion is challenged, because we need to know the limits of
copyright law.
Just for the record, I do not claim any rights on this email it is public
record, CC0.
Regards
Quentin


On 14 Mar 2017 6:52 p.m., "Michael A. Ivie" <mivie at montana.edu> wrote:

This is a continuation of a disturbing new trend we see in the US from our
President: If you want something, just make a claim the laws don't apply to
you and take it.  There is a large body of law that shows that artwork in a
publication is subject to copyright.   This paper does not have any affect
on that fact. Until is it tested in court in each country, it is just an
assertion.

Mike



On 3/13/2017 3:29 PM, Donat Agosti wrote:

> Here is the link to the press release https://www.eurekalert.org/pub
> _releases/2017-03/pp-lor031317.php<https://na01.safelinks.
> protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurekalert.
> org%2Fpub_releases%2F2017-03%2Fpp-lor031317.php&data=01%
> 7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7C9154da42673940b6b24708d46a28fb21%
> 7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=go798VKWViVVbLO
> odYMQSM38JcugcumJcMNJJPKYhGw%3D&reserved=0> , the article
> https://t.co/mi5JknB2VQ about, and what can be done with the huge
> untapped body of scientific illustrations if we free them, that is, give
> them the freedom they ought to have, not least so that they can be given
> due limelight and attribution https://zenodo.org/communities
> /biosyslit/searchpage=1&size=20&file_type=png
>
> Donat
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