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The Internet has caused profound changes in the conditions of academic activities. Vast numbers of documents are available via publicly accessible websites. Traditional academic and scientific media such as academic journals and publications in book form are being complemented or even replaced by electronic versions. At the same time, researchers and scientists pass on their sources of all kinds by means of individual communication in data networks. The digitisation enables researches to change documents more easily and thus facilitates interactive scientific collaboration. This process is expressly supported by the leading German research organisations in the Berlin Declaration (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html).
The new communication possibilities allow academic content in its original or in an altered version to be disseminated in a decentralised manner - in a fast, transparent way, closely related to research. Scientific researchers are regularly interested in making their findings widely available at a high level of quality. The Modular DPPL Licence therefore permits the passing on of copyrighted material. It furthermore grants permission to modify those parts of a work, marked as alterable by the authors and allows the dissemination of altered versions. While this rule intends to facilitate collaboration between scientists, it leaves the decision up the author, to open only certain parts of his work for interactive scientific collaboration. The aim of this Modular DPPL Licence is to ensure that this process takes place in a fair, transparent and secure way for all those involved.
This Modular DPPL Licence provides the contractual basis for publishing documents in e-journals as described above. The licence allows any user to pass the document on in electronic form, e.g. to make it publicly available in networks.
Passing documents on is, however, subject to certain obligations, particularly concerning citing the names of authors and holders of rights and the bibliographical information used, in order to guarantee a standard form of citation. Anybody using an altered version is obliged to indicate the work of the original authors in an appropriate manner but may not refer to them as being authors of any altered part of the work. Furthermore the modified document may only be published under the conditions of this Modular DPPL Licence.
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