[Advocacy Advisors] Advocacy_Advisors Digest, Vol 32, Issue 16

Fri Feb 27 17:03:37 UTC 2015

Hi,

Actually, it's mostly angels in the details this time :-).

We were celebrating this announcement some time ago, but I completely forgot to forward it to this list. All articles published with money from Vetenskapsrådet will from 2017 be forced to use CC BY to be able to get new funding. (Vetenskapsrådet already now encourage researchers that want funding to publish with a CC BY license).[1]

Also, all research data will be released under a free license (most likely CC0). However, this might not be binding until 2025... We, and others, have pointed out that this change should be possible to do a lot faster. We will see if they stick with that time table or not.

It's also great that they in their report write "we recommend a shift with respect to scientific publishing, from a subscription-based system to one of open access."[2] Something that really is a paradigm shift! 

[1] http://www.vr.se/forskningsfinansiering/sokabidrag/vetenskapsradetsallmannavillkor/fritillganglighetopenaccess.4.1d4cbbbb11a00d342b0800021800.html 
[2] https://publikationer.vr.se/en/product/proposal-for-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information/ page 10.

Regards,

John

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>    1. Re: Good news from Sweden on PD-Gov and open	access
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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:28:35 -0800
> From: Yana Welinder <yana at wikimedia.org>
> To: Advocacy Advisory Group for Wikimedia
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> Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Good news from Sweden on PD-Gov and
> 	open	access
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> This is great news! I haven't had a chance to dig into the proposal, but
> this sounds promising: "All scientific publications shall have a Creative
> Commons (CC) license."
> https://publikationer.vr.se/en/product/proposal-for-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information/
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the update, Stevie!
> >
> > Sounds great. Let's hope openly available as in cc-by and not as in
> > "you're only allowed to look at it through a frame on a hard-to-find
> > website".
> >
> > Dimi
> >
> > 2015-02-18 11:20 GMT+01:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> The Swedish Research Council has just proposed new guidelines on open
> >> access. To quote from their website
> >> <https://www.openaire.eu/newsletter-items/sweden-proposed-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information>
> >> :
> >>
> >> The basic principles in the proposed national guidelines are
> >> that scientific publications and artistic works, as well as research data
> >> forming the basis for scientific publications, that are the result of
> >> publicly funded research, must be openly available.
> >>
> >> I'm sure the devil is in the detail but this seems like excellent news!
> >> John and Jan, do you know much about this? What's the background?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Stevie
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> From: James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Twitter v. Holder amicus brief
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> yeah, I know I've always been impressed at how often the amici can be
> quoted in opinions (my initial thought would actually be 'never'). I
> recently read an interesting (a bit old) study
> <http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3356&context=penn_law_review>
> about
> their influence in the supreme court (and I swear there was a more recent
> article about it that I read... but can't find it). Especially when they
> start piling up from tons of people on the sides I think they turn into a
> bit of a PR thing but the original purpose of them to give a more
> information to the court that the parties can't/don't give still seems to
> be around at least a bit.
> 
> James Alexander
> Legal and Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte at wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dimi,
> >>
> >> In the US, amicus briefs can have legal value as well as media value.
> >> Amici are not parties to the case, so it may not have the same weight as
> >> the parties' briefs, but it's an opportunity to add another perspective.
> >> Some advocacy organizations (like ACLU and EFF), as well as the US
> >> government, regularly file amicus briefs on potentially relevant topics.
> >>
> >
> > I should add that while there is a publicity angle (as there is to
> > anything in our modern world!) most lawyers are fairly reticent to create
> > or join amicus briefs merely for publicity - as a matter of professional
> > ethics in a formal legal document, the legal arguments still have to be
> > solid and persuasive.
> >
> > Luis
> >
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> >> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Stephen,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for doing this! I do think we have an interest in this case and
> >>> questions about such letters have been raised even within our community.
> >>>
> >>> The way I understand it, an amicus brief  is like a highly official
> >>> letter of support but has no palpable legal value. Do such documents play
> >>> any role for the court or is this rather targeted at the media?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Dimi
> >>>
> >>> 2015-02-18 6:56 GMT+01:00 Stephen LaPorte <slaporte at wikimedia.org>:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> We have joined six other organizations[1] in an amicus brief[2] in
> >>>> Twitter v. Holder.[3] Twitter initiated this action against the US
> >>>> government to establish the right to publish more detailed info about the
> >>>> number of national security letters it receives in its transparency report.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] Aautomattic, Cloudflare, CREDOMobile, Medium, Sonic, and Wickr.
> >>>> [2]
> >>>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/54/Twitter_v_Holder_amicus.pdf
> >>>> [3] https://www.eff.org/cases/twitter-v-holder
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