{"id":5069,"date":"2012-12-20T19:43:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2012-12-20T20:48:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:48:01","slug":"copyright-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=5069","title":{"rendered":"copyright parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last blog post received quite some comments which I would like to answer. So reader Jared Khithim <\/a> asked about the use of my proposals for a pre-preprint achive:<\/p>\n

..this seems to be a quite clear violation of your copyrights! Are you going to sue Holtzbrinck?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reader M. Boulangel<\/a> saw this similarily and wondered wether I wouldn’t like to set up my own preprint archive and last but not least reader Mandy<\/a> asked about the CC-10 birthday party:<\/p>\n

…is boring talks the new berlin party scoop?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So regarding the copyright issue: No – I don’t want to sue Holtzbrinck. In fact it’s not only that I find my suggestions not overly original and rather intuitive but also that I think that it’s good that at least some people care about the issue. Moreover I don’t want to set up a preprint archive – I actually had already set up** and maintained a preprint archive<\/a> for almost ten years at the former sfb288<\/a> which starts with lecture notes* by Ludvig Faddeev<\/a> from autumn 1991. <\/p>\n

I could also imagine that eventually some kind of pre-preprint archive may exist already at some institution, as there are meanwhile many institutional repositories. Or there may be related projects. Like for the Mimirix project<\/a> we used trac<\/a> for (amongst others) reading the students works and who knows wether there aren’t universities who already set up their own online dissertation pre-print archive. I still think it would be good to have something like this with a long term support offered by a global public institution like the arxiv.org<\/a>. A company like Holtzbrinck has to keep its own business interest in focus and this may<\/em> unfortunately turn out to be eventually at some point against the original idea of science. <\/p>\n

Concluding – I eventually would use my “copyrights” passively, that is in case someone would e.g. try to forbid the arxiv.org to set up such a thing, because of copyright issues (there are still software patents<\/a> in the US) then I could eventually try to help the arxiv with my timestamped proposals, which are distributed over the internet. But I don’t think that this is going to happen.<\/p>\n

*the preprints have no licence, since back then a kind of creative commons share-a-like licence was sort of self-understood for preprints, I actually don’t know how the arxiv handles these new laws.
\n**with technical help from colleagues<\/p>\n

Regarding the party… the party of course started after the talks, images after the click.
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\nThe party took place in the lobby of the Haus Ungarn (the former .CHB<\/a>), which hosts also the Goldneun<\/a> restaurant and bar.<\/p>\n

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\nIn the foreground the www.netzpolitik.org<\/a> in-crowd with Markus Beckedahl and Henrik Moltke<\/a>, the latter used to be the danish project lead of creative commons and was involved in the project freebeer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nApart from the Goldneun cocktail bar there was also a beerbar, called “made in Berlin”.<\/p>\n

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\nThe cocktail bar was nicely decorated with flowers.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Berlin fernsehturm<\/a> with the “Park Inn” Hotel formerly known as “Hotel Stadt Berlin” which is probably the most famous interhotel.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nUnfortunately it was tooo dark to make many pictures of the cool interior<\/a> of the location. In the foto, behind the staircase, you see a bit of an interactive mirror. If you come close to the light speckled wall in the background then your image is scanned and gets “reflected” as little dots.<\/p>\n

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\nThe location is partially encircled by a big glass front with currently moisty windows due to the frost.<\/p>\n

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\nThe location has also a little terrace, in the background a Ferris wheel. <\/p>\n

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\nNext to the Ferris wheel is the Marienkirche<\/a>, presumably Berlins second oldest church, here behind the turntables.<\/p>\n

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\nThe DJ’s behind the turntables played cool Creative Commons licenced music from Kraftfuttermischwerk<\/a> and Peter Withoutfield (Blogrebellen<\/a>). There was though not much dancing – at least while I was there it seemed people wanted mostly to talk.<\/p>\n

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\nThe CC tart was cut.<\/p>\n

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\nThe mirror columns of the location were a hiding place for those who had to work.<\/p>\n

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\nLike a business’ death angel – a sculpture is standing in front of cigarette vendor machines.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd as one can see at the ash tray unfortunately the cigarette business florished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last blog post received quite some comments which I would like to answer. So reader Jared Khithim asked about the use of my proposals for a pre-preprint achive: ..this seems to be a quite clear violation of your copyrights! Are you going to sue Holtzbrinck? Reader M. Boulangel saw this similarily and wondered wether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,13,15,12,31,6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}