Who, What, Where, Employer Copyright
Maarten Zeinstra, KR21’s national coordinator, contributed an article to the national InformatieProfessional magazine. In it, he explores a pressing question Dutch universities face: who owns the rights to academic publications or teaching materials – the universities or the academics?
Maarten notably looks at a report by the Universiteiten van Nederland (UNL) to try to answer this question.
He further discusses the monopolisation of knowledge and publishers’ exuberant profit margins (to which taxpayers contribute). Maarten shares some strong views on how to rebalance this while emphasising the need to stand united for knowledge rights
19 March 2024.
