Discussion remarks I

What models exist to handle the copyright challenge in the digital age and to keep the promise of info-democracy in Science and education?

Pre-remark 1: Copyright/Urheberrecht is not a prime topic of law competent persons, and right holding organisations, publishers, etc.
but of the authors/users [car drivers vs. car sellers]

Pre-remark2: what is so specific on behalf of science and academic teaching

1. Economy argument: Catalytic benefit for industry nation's competitions: Industry needs research results and best trained scientists: competition of countries
   Universities need best staff and scientists: competition of Universities
   Universities to serve best training and research: Competition of graduees
   Thus it pays off to serve all worldwide knowledge most effectively

   Thus information science management is a government task.
   Outsourcing to commercial services in as much as requirements are met and competition is assured.

   Therefore the Principle of Usage-intention of material.
   Maximize usage, usability.

   - and not of work force in present commercial industry fixation.

2. Model I: copy the paper age model of information management to information-age means
   also called the timid or absurd model
   (keep the value chain and business model)

   [reader pays prior to eventual reading; document kept exclusively to raise the price (monopole)]
   [Distribution independent of request]

   Copyright of authors is taken away exclusively by world-wide operating few commercial companies (Market monopole)

   Simple one-type refereeing only.
   Government to pay and ensure the income of the companies [ES benefit larger than 39% of turnaround]

   This model is attractive to the Government: soothing the lobby industry
   [Hearings of the Ministery of Justice for a reform of the Urheberrecht:
   - Lobby-driven; The minister: balancing the pressure..

   How does this look locally: The Bremen riddle

3. Model II: Starting from what is needed: effective doing of research and teaching. Thus:
   1. author to put everything online OA; commercial reuse only.
   2. Institutional and central OA-archives [HAL, ArXiv]
   3. weighing careers by impact, measured DFG-Institute
      [google-scholar gives just about 10% of citations, and of scientific papers accesible. ]
      citebase.ac.uk
   4. Integrity assurance by digital copies kept and compared at many places
   5. International Standards, recommendations, technical standards given by CNI, DINI, ..
   6. Long term archiving by network of national libraries:
      open formats, open access, continuous embedding into present and future knowledge and interactive Usage (Alton)
   7. Business model: author institution pays for publication (it is their reputation gain!)
      [Oldenburg example: 50% serving information; 50% own visibility]
   Question 2; start; Links. additional remarks