Irony? Publisher Celebrates IP By Revoking IP 26/04/2016 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)There’s no better way to celebrate something than by doing the opposite of it. That seems to be the message of a leading publishing company. In a campaign today to hail the virtues of intellectual property, it appears to be hoping to gain goodwill – and possibly some sales – by removing intellectual property on some of its products. The Edward Elgar publishing company’s campaign for World IP Day today is entitled, Free Access to Scholarship, and it states: “To celebrate World Intellectual Property Day, Edward Elgar Publishing are providing free access to IP scholarship on the theme of digital copyright and creativity. Please share this! Chapter and article links below.” It provides open access to numerous – admittedly intriguing – chapters from copyrighted academic books and journals, like samplers of products for sale. Exceptions and limitations to copyright are a part of copyright law. But publishers have been under fire for years to make products open access in order to encourage sharing and creativity, and have had to defend the benefits to authors, research and business of copyrighting content. So it might be said that the way to celebrate the success and utility of intellectual property would be to put it to use, or add more of it. Is the message confusing? Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Irony? Publisher Celebrates IP By Revoking IP" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Christopher Paun says 26/04/2016 at 4:41 pm Granting free access is not the same as revoking IP. All these works are still protected by copyright. Reply