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German government will re-evaluate rejected OA proposal The German federal government's 2008 media and communications report (Medien- und Kommunikationsbericht der Bundesregierung 2008) was published last month, December 17, 2008. (Thanks to KoopTech.) It's a PDF, so I can't link to a machine translation. At pp. 76-77, the government says it will re-evaluate a 2006 proposal for a secondary exploitation right for authors (Zweitverwertungsrecht für Urheber) of scientific research articles based on publicly-funded research. The proposal is based on an excellent idea of Gerd Hansen's which I wrote about in SOAN for June 2006:
The government rejected the idea in 2006 and German law does not currently incorporate it. The government is not promising to support it this time, but its willingness to re-evaluate it has to count as good news. (Thanks to Sebastian Krujatz for help in understanding the government's position.) |