H.R.5704 - To amend title 10, United States Code, to allow faculty members at Department of Defense service academies and schools of professional military education to secure copyrights for certain scholarly works that they produce as part of their official duties in order to submit such works for publication, and for other purposes.

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  • Official: To amend title 10, United States Code, to allow faculty members at Department of Defense service academies and schools of professional military education to secure copyrights for certain scholarly works that they produce as part of their official duties in order to submit such works for publication, and for other purposes. as introduced.

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7/1/2010--Introduced.Authorizes a faculty member of a military service academy (including the Coast Guard Academy and Merchant Marine Academy) or Department of Defense (DOD) professional school (including the National Defense University) to secure federal copyright protection for a scholar
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7/1/2010--Introduced.Authorizes a faculty member of a military service academy (including the Coast Guard Academy and Merchant Marine Academy) or Department of Defense (DOD) professional school (including the National Defense University) to secure federal copyright protection for a scholarly work prepared as part of that person's official duties, but only for purposes of publication by a scholarly press or journal for which such a copyright is required. Requires the faculty member to transfer such copyright to the owner or publisher of the medium for which the work will be published. Prohibits the acceptance of royalties or other compensation by reason of such copyright protection.

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01/01/11
Archivalia: Peter Subers Open-Access-Rückblick auf 2010

For the bill (HR 5704) he introduced in the US House of Representatives, in 2005 and again in 2010, giving faculty at the US military academies copyrights in their scholarly writings ("in order to submit such works for publication"), ...

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12/22/10
Cervical Nerve Block

Bill Text 111th Congress (2009-2010) HR5704.IH . (a) Authority- Title XIII of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. USC 1295 et seq. Now after 65 long years of waiting there is a bill in Congress -- S-663 (the belated thank you to the ...

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07/19/10
More protection for military faculty, or less?

When I first read about a new bill in Congress, HR 5704, I innocently believed that it was an attempt to remedy that disparity, and my initial reaction was ambivalence. I say ambivalence because my distress that material would be ...

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