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"Fare Open Access" affronta con approccio positivo e operativo il tema strategico della diffusione del sapere scientifico in ottica open. L'Open Access è diventato uno degli obiettivi chiave delle politiche dell'innovazione dell'Unione Europea e dei princi­pali paesi industrializzati; ed è fondamentale conoscerne i lineamenti teorici e le concrete potenzialità. Gli autori sono tutti professionisti attivi da molti anni in questo campo e hanno quindi il polso delle questioni emergenti e delle maggiori criticità non solo da un punto vista teorico-dottrinale. Ognuno di loro affronta da diverse prospettive il tema più generale della comunicazione scientifica e quello pratico di come fare Open Access nell'attuale panorama ormai fortemente volto al digitale. Il testo è completato da un'utile appendice con i documenti di riferimento, come i principali testi-manifesto e le norme attualmente in vigore a livello nazionale e internazionale.

"Making Open Access" deals with the strategic theme of the diffusion of scientific knowledge from an open and positive perspective. Open Access has become one of the key objectives of the innovation policies of the European Union and of the main industrialized countries; and it is essential to know its theoretical features and concrete potential. The authors are all professionals active for many years in this field and therefore have the pulse of emerging issues and of the most critical issues, not only from a theoretical-doctrinal point of view. Each of them faces from a different perspective the more general theme of scientific communication and the practical one of how to make Open Access in the current landscape now strongly aimed at digital. The text is completed by a useful appendix with the reference documents, such as the main texts and the rules currently in force at national and international level.

Data and databases are a complex, nuanced area within intellectual property law.In the European Union databases have a special legal treatment that provides two levels of protection. A database is protected by copyright in the classical sense when it can be considered an intellectual work with a creative nature. Where databases represent mere collections of data without sufficient creativity to trigger copyright, EU jurisdictions protect the database under sui generis rights when substantial investment has been made in obtaining, verifying, or presenting the database contents according to Directive 96/9/EC.This system creates a substantial discrepancy between the situation of European countries and the rest of the world, and also affects those databases that have been released under open licenses.Not all of the currently available open licenses take account of the legal and practical implications of this discrepancy, and we should examine the consequences and options.The paper aims to provide a high-level analysis on the protection of databases under European law and identify the main legal problems arising from it in an open data scenario. Then it will focus on the solutions tried so far to implement a proper open licensing framework for the database (with an introduction to the licenses offered by Creative Commons and the Open Data Commons project). Finally, some of the most prominent use cases of open licensing for data will be analysed (such as those of geo-data and linked-data), with some observations on the modus operandi of the various promoters of projects.