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OSF as a platform for scholarly workflow. Slides available here: http://osf.io/9kcd3
MC Needs:
- Identity
- Extensible/local workflow
- Github issues
Prue Adler, Brandon Butler, Metadata Copyright Legal Guidance
Copyright protects the original expression of the authors. Modicum of creativity, independent creation. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, discoveries, systems. Effort, time, expertise are irrelevant in the US, not in the UK and EU.
Merger doctrine – if the idea can be expressed in only a limited number of ways, the expression merges w/ fact and is unprotected.
Selection and arrangement of facts can be protected if creative and original.
No copyright in words, titles, and short phrases.
No copyright in blank forms (psychometrics – perhaps this is a patentable method)
MC: VIVO Project was able to work with Web of Science and SCOPUS to clarify which facts in their databases were public domain and which were not. Public Domain facts can be harvested from these systems and used in VIVO systems, effectively making the facts open and reusable by others.
Contracts can restrict reuse regardless of contract.