国内学術雑誌における著作権の取り扱い調査

摘要

国内の学術研究団体から主に日本語で発行される約50誌の学術雑誌の著作権の取り扱いについて文献およびインタビューによる調査を行った。文献調査によれば，論文をはじめとするコンテンツの著作権は学会に帰属する場合が多く，著作権規定の中では複製権や公衆送信権，翻訳権?翻案権といった著作権法上の権利や，利用許諾，著作者の著作物利用，著作者の責任に関する規定が重要視されていた。文献調査とインタビュー調査の結果をもとに著作権の取り扱いに関する方向性を検討し，著作権が学会に帰属する場合と著作者に帰属する場合について，著作権規定の日本語のひな型を作成した。このひな型は，利用許諾を広範に認める緩やかな規定をベースとしており，インターネット上で公開し，普及活動を行っている。また，このひな型を利用して，『情報管理』誌の投稿規定を見直し，著作権規定を新たに追加した。%Copyright policy and copyright terms have a direct effect on the proper usage of academic papers. However, there are many journals which don't have very clear terms of usage policies in Japan. In 2009 a survey was conducted on the copyright practices of Japanese academic societies. As a result two templates of copyright terms for academic journals were proposed. In the literature research of 50 journals (mainly written in Japanese) it was found that copyrights for nearly 80% of the journals belonged to the society. Important provisions included the right of reproduction, the right of public transmission, the rights of translation and adaptation, the permission to use the works, the usage by the author, and the author obligation. Then 20 societies were interviewed. The survey results reflected that the size of society's departments affected the frequency of revising the copyright terms and operational scheme. In addition, both revenues and discipline of each society affected the scope of permission for example it was found that commercial publishers had detailed copyright terms. The interviewed societies preferred "Wide" to "Narrow" permission to ensure continued submission. They preferred to maintain the author's right of paper usage for submission to institutional repositories (IRs) and publication from IRs as optional. From the results of the literature research and the interview survey, we made two templates for copyright practices based on the "Wide" permission reviewed by lawyers. Consequently, two final legally-valid templates were published online. The following is an example of the review of copyright terms for the journal "JOHO-KANRI" with the template so that society publishers can make use of the templates.