Auguste Renoir, Sculptor With Hired Hands: A Masterful Artistic Cooperation Overshadowed by Legal Issues and Copyright Infringement.

The coping with rheumatoid arthritis of the famous French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is described in former publications. The heavily handicapped painter has in his last years created sculptures in cooperation with the sculptor Richard Guino (1890-1973). The extraordinary genesis of the sculptures through a masterful artistic cooperation, as well as the resulting legal issues and shameful copyright infringements, is reported. Renoir's decision to create sculptures with the help of Guido can be attributed to his remarkable artistic vision, vitality, optimistic nature, and strong will and is also a further testimonial of creative coping of an artist overcoming the physical handicap due to rheumatoid arthritis of his final years, so far not described in detail in the medical literature.

On publishing ethics: a review of conventions and practices.

A writer's work, whether scientific or literary, involves certain ethical risks, some of which are peculiar to psychoanalysis. Although the ethics of publishing reports that contain sensitive clinical material has been discussed extensively in the psychoanalytic literature, the ethics of publishing material taken from other publications or oral presentations that do not directly involve patients has been scarcely dealt with. This paper considers issues of ownership of such material, plagiarism, copyright and its violations, and the possibility of a negative reaction on the part of the original author. Characteristic cases are cited along with suggestions about how to handle them.

Acceso abierto (open access), un modelo necesario de comunicación científica / No disponible

La comunicación científica es imprescindible para el desarrollo de la ciencia, y su núcleofundamental de difusión son las revistas científicas. En el actual ambiente electrónico, como respuestaal continuo aumento de información científica, su elevado coste y la crisis económica,nace el movimiento de acceso abierto. Este movimiento pretende eliminar barreras económicasy legales en la difusión de los resultados de la investigación. Su objetivo es maximizar el impactode la investigación facilitando su acceso. Este trabajo describe su origen, desarrollo, apoyos, futuroinmediato y, también, los mecanismos para la publicación en acceso abierto, el autoarchivadoy el uso de los recolectores y buscadores específicos(AU)

Scientific communication is essential for the development of the science practice and its coreis the scientific journals. The open access movement appears within the current electronic environmentas an answer to the continuous growing of information, its high cost and the economiccrisis. This movement seeks to eliminate economic and legal barriers in the dissemination ofthe research results. Its objective is to maximize the impact of research by facilitating its access.This paper describes its origin, development, support and future; and it also describes the processto open access publishing and self-archiving in repositories, the search engines and collectorsspecific to open access(AU)

Copyright: its adequacy in technological societies.

What the United States does about the data explosion is likely to be copied on a global basis. America is the archetype of the coming technological society; we have all the advantages of being first, but others may avoid our mistakes. Let us hope that our errors are few