There is a range of promising applications of
Creative Commons-licences or other open content models
in the field of science and research. The roles the
universities themselves can play should be examined. On
the one hand, universities, as employers of researchers,
lay claim to their own copyrights. At the same time, the
universities are large-scale users of scientific works
and therefore have a direct interest in the broad
application of open content models.
Lucie
Guibault conducts research into the role universities
should play concerning the application of Creative
Commons licences to scientific content. The draft
preliminary report of this research was discussed at the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Academic Colloquium "Open Content: New Models
for Accessing and Licensing Knowledge", which
was held in Amsterdam on 27-28 April 2006.
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