Free and open-source software

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The license/contract dichotomy in open licenses: a comparative analysis

The paper looks at the legal nature of so-called open licenses – agreements designed to provide permissions to users and publishers through “some rights reserved” clauses. The article starts with the assertion that copyright licenses are contracts in Civil Law jurisdictions, and looks at the opposing views and practice in Common Law jurisdictions. The article particularly looks at recent case law in the United States which deals specifically with the issue, and concludes that there is now a clear jurisdictional split between both traditions on whether these licenses are contracts

Scale-free law: network science and copyright

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Viral contracts or unenforceable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses

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Networks, complexity and internet regulation: scale-free law

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Open science: open source licences for scientific research

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the area of open source software (“OSS”) as an alternative economic model. However, the success of the OSS mindshare and collaborative online experience has wider implications to many other fields of human endeavor than the mere licensing of computer programmes. There are a growing number of institutions interested in using OSS licensing schemes to distribute creative works and scientific research, and even to publish online journals through open access (“OA”) licenses. There appears to be growing concern in the scientific community about the trend to fence and protect scientific research through intellectual property, particularly by the abuse of patent applications for biotechnology research. The OSS experience represents a successful model which demonstrates that IP licenses could eventually be used to protect against the misuse and misappropriation of basic scientific research. This would be done by translating existing OSS licenses to protect scientific research. Some efforts are already paying dividends in areas such as scientific publishing, evidenced by the growing number of OA journals. However, the process of translating software licenses to areas other than publishing has been more difficult. OSS and OA licenses work best with works subject to copyright protection because copyright subsists in an original work as soon as it is created. However, it has been more difficult to generate a license that covers patented works because patents are only awarded through a lengthy application and registration process. If the open science experiment is to work, it needs the intervention of the legal community to draft new licenses that may apply to scientific research. This article will look at the issue of such OA licenses, paying special care as to how the system can best be exported to scientific research based on OSS and OA ideals

Memory hole or right to delist? Implications of the right to be forgotten on web archiving

This article studies the possible impact of the “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) on the preservation of native digital heritage. It analyses whether archival practices are likely to be affected by the new right, and if resources may become impossible to preserve for future generations, falling under the risk to disappear from memories and history since no version would be available in public or private archives. The article concludes that at the moment there is no room for concern for archives given the restricted application of RTBF

Implementación de servicios de referencia móvil en la Biblioteca de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos

The process of implementation of two reference services in the Library of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is presented in detail through the use of mobile devices and applications. The services implemented are the attention of queries by text message (SMS) and the sending of informational alerts through Whatsapp. Installation details, service testing and implementation policies are addressed. It is concluded that new mobile technologies are giving libraries new possibilities to offer their services, giving the user the ability to use the resources of the information unit without moving physically to the building. These new possibilities do not necessarily require a high budget investment to carry them out

Poder, sociedad, bibliotecas e información

El cambio es quizás el fenómeno más constante en la historia de la humanidad. El mundo, la sociedad, y la comunicación en general han mutado una y otra vez conforme la humanidad evoluciona, y conforme también evoluciona su vida en sociedad. Las bibliotecas, por su parte, son la institución académica que más cambios sociales y tecnológicos han presenciado. Las revoluciones tecnológicas, la imprenta y la viralización del conocimiento científico que trajo con su invención, la llegada de la digitalización y el universo de posibilidades que el Internet impuso son parte de los muchos cambios que las unidades de información han presenciado a la largo de sus centenares de años de existencia.UCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ciencias Sociales::Facultad de Educación::Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Informació