Dear Colleagues,
The Alexandria Archive Institute, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and
Creative Commons are launching a new project to help facilitate open access
and digital information sharing for archaeology and related disciplines.
To best meet the needs of researchers, students, the public, and other
stakeholders, we are formulating intellectual property policies and
guidelines. We are particularly interested in learning about any
intellectual property protections or limitations you feel are necessary to
preserve investment in archaeological investigation and dissemination, as
well as any concerns you might have about overprotection that now inhibits
access and use of information for instruction and research.
We would be grateful for your help. Please forward this survey to your
colleagues and any relevant lists, and take a few moments to answer the
following questions.
Please email all responses to: [log in to unmask]
SURVEY: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ARCHAEOLOGY (12 QUESTIONS)
SECTION A: These first few questions will help us understand some aspects of
how the archaeological community relates to the broader community of
stakeholders.
(1) The following best describes my professional position (tenured
professor, graduate student, CRM researcher, etc.):
(2) If you allow your name to be associated with your responses, please
provide it below. Otherwise, we will assume that you wish to keep your
responses anonymous.
Name:
Affiliation:
(3) Have you ever had any intellectual property/copyright obligations under
the terms of any of your research permits or grants? If so, what kinds of
obligations? Can you provide us with copies of those permits/grants?
(4) Have you ever had any discussions regarding intellectual property or
copyright with those stakeholders? If so, which ones? Did you experience
any frustrations or insights from those conversations that you would like to
share with us?
(5) Do you think we, as archaeologists, strike the right balance between
information access, the interests of researchers, the protection of
sensitive information, and the interests of other stakeholders, especially
members of indigenous communities? If not, how would you change the current
balance to make it better?
(6) Do you think it is fair to share attribution, commercialization, and
copyrights with other stakeholders, even if these other stakeholders were
not directly involved in funding or permitting your research? What effect do
you think it would have on relationships between archaeologists and other
communities if we were to share more of these rights?
SECTION B: Open IP policies would permit free copying, distribution, use,
reuse and reinterpretation of archaeological documentation for instruction
and research. Understanding and balancing professional incentives for such
open information resources is vital to guide our project to success. Please
keep these goals in mind as you answer the following questions:
(7) How do you feel about the current copyright restrictions and costs of
traditional publishing? Do these restrictions inhibit your instruction or
research? Has your research ever been hampered because relevant information
remains either unpublished or inadequately published?
(8) Would you be willing to share, via the Internet, your primary
documentation (maps, plans, image archives, databases, analyses, GIS files,
etc.) if this content was protected by a legal license that requires anyone
who uses your research to attribute you as the source?
(9) Some researchers worry that open access to primary data enables rivals
to beat them to publication and professional advancement. A “do not
republish” term would allow the public free access and use of primary
research, so long as these uses do not include unauthorized publication in a
peer-review journal or similar outlet. Do you think a "do no republish" term
would encourage more authors to provide open access to their materials? If
so, how long should the term be in effect before materials are open for free
republication?
(10) If an Internet dissemination method has: (a) a peer-review mechanism,
(b) legal licenses that protect attribution and may guard against
competitive republication, (c) data longevity and stewardship assurances
from university digital library programs, (d) the ability to support highly
specific searches and the data filtering / aggregation power of a database.
Would you value this as much as traditional paper publication? Do you think
your colleagues would value it? Why or why not?
(11) In your opinion, is open access worth funding? If so, what sources of
funding do you think are best to sustain open dissemination channels? How
should foundations be involved? What about professional societies?
(12) If you have any other open access / intellectual property / copyright
concerns or suggestions, please add them here:
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Eric C. Kansa
Executive Director, Alexandria Archive Inst.
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
www.alexandriaarchive.org
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