Open Access News

News from the open access movement


Saturday, March 08, 2008

Major book on OA and German copyright

Rainer Kuhlen, Erfolgreiches Scheitern - eine Götterdämmerung des Urheberrechts?  [Successful failure - a Götterdämmerung of copyright?] Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, 2008.  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)  A new 644 page book, published in a priced/print edition, an OA edition in PDF (2.61 MB), and an OA edition in HTML (still under construction).   See especially:

  • Chapter 8, Open Access — kopernikanische Wende
    für die Öffentlichmachung und die freie Nutzung von Wissen [Open access - Copernican revolution for publishing (or making-public) and the free use of knowledge], pp. 457 - 552.
  • Chapter 9, Geschäfts- und Organisationsmodelle
    für Open Access [Business and organization models for open access], pp. 553 - 580.

PS:  Kuhlen holds the UNESCO Chair of Communications at the University of Konstanz.  For more background, see my past posts on him and his organization, Aktionsbündnis - Urheberrecht für Bildung und Wissenschaft [Coalition for Action - Copyright for Education and Research].

The book, BTW, is published under two different CC licenses:  the international version of the CC-BY license and the German version of the CC-BY-NC-SA license.