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Malaysian copyright law in the digital environment: Does it provide a balance of interests between copyright owners and the public? / Sik Cheng Peng
Full text linkCopyright law encourages authors to create and share their works with the public by affording them legal protection over their works when published. However, copyright law does not give authors absolute rights so as to ensure that the public will benefit from the works produced by authors. In this way, copyright law promotes the progress of arts and science. The importance of maintaining a balance of interests between copyright owners and the public is widely acknowledged and emphasized in international treaties on intellectual property rights as well as by the courts in case law. The development of digital technologies has brought substantial challenges to copyright law. The process of copying and sharing of digital works is made extremely easy and at low cost. Copyright owners have thus lobbied for stronger protection under copyright law and succeeded in doing so. It is therefore crucial to study how copyright law accommodates the issues raised by digital technologies and whether it provides a balance of interests between copyright owners and the public in doing so. This thesis examines the application of Malaysian copyright law in addressing the issues arising in relation to digital technologies and whether it maintains a balance of interests between copyright owners and the public in the digital environment. The advent of digital technologies has raised a wide range of copyright concerns. This thesis looks into the questions in five selected areas, namely, digital appropriation of copyright works, the setting of links on websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, the limitation of liabilities of service providers and legal protection over technological protection measures. This thesis analyzes the Copyright Act 1987, being the statute governing copyright matters in Malaysia. It also makes reference to three main jurisdictions, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, wherever it is necessary and relevant. Malaysian copyright law is inadequate and insufficient in many ways in addressing the issues in the identified areas. Overall, Malaysian copyright law tilts in favour of copyright owners at the expense of public interest. This thesis concludes with recommendations on how Malaysian copyright law may handle the issues raised by digital technologies more adequately and efficiently, with the ultimate object of striking a balance between the interests of copyright owners and the public
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Rethinking the concept of an ‘Author’ in the face of digital technology advances: A perspective from the copyright law of a commonwealth country
No full textAs society continues to embrace advances in digital technologies, a major question that arises is the impact which such technologies have on the concept of an 'author' under copyright law. Prior to the advent of the user-generated content (UGC) technology, creative works on the Internet were produced by one or several identifiable authors. The advent of the UGC technology has enabled the active authorial participation of Internet users. This has made it possible for massively collaborative works on the Internet to mushroom where numerous authors' contributions are incrementally merged into an extensive single work. The concept of an 'author' under copyright law is premised on the basis that a work has one or several finite authors. Many UGC works defy this traditional mode of creating works. Taking Malaysian copyright law as the focal point of this study, the research examines whether the concept of an 'author' as defined in the Malaysian Copyright Act 1987 is sufficient to address the authorship issue in the light of the UGC technology. It concludes that the current concept of an 'author' in the Act is ill-equipped to accommodate Internet-based collaborations. It recommends the introduction of the concept of a 'deemed author' in copyright law and suggests that the status of a 'deemed author' be conferred on the entity who controls and determines the configuration of the resulting work
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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