Session 7 (June 26)

Who Owns Scholarship?

Selfie taken by a macaque of herself. The photo show's the macaque's upper body on a diagonal, with the macaque appearing to look directly at the camera and showing her teeth, seeming to smile

Self-portrait by the depicted Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra). Learn more.

Topics will include:

  • Copyright
  • Public domain
  • Fair use
  • Interaction of copyright and contracts
  • Creative Commons licenses

Assignments for June 28:

  • Just the readings

Readings (etc.) for June 28:

Mboa Nkoudou, T. H. (2020). Epistemic alienation in African scholarly communications: Open access as a pharmakon. In Eve, M. P., & Gray, J. (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (pp. 25-40). MIT Press.

Hudson, M., Carroll, S. R., Anderson, J., Blackwater, D., Cordova-Marks, F. M., Cummins, J., David-Chavez, D., Fernandez, A., Garba, I., Hiraldo, D., Jäger, M. B., Jennings, L. L., Martinez, A., Sterling, R., Walker, J. D., & Rowe, R. K. (2023). Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Data: a contribution toward Indigenous Research Sovereignty. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8.

Local Contexts (2021). Local Contexts [Video].

Shearer, K., & Becerril-García, A. (2021). Decolonizing Scholarly Communications through Bibliodiversity. Zenodo.

Albornoz, D., Chan, L., Shockey, N., Sikri, K., Timidi-Digha, B. (2021). Knowledge by whom? Knowledge for whom? [Audio podcast episode]. In Unsettling Knowledge Inequities. Knowledge Equity Lab and SPARC.