[GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

Dear Donat, Thanks for pointing out the $39 fee that OUP asks for 1 day of access to the PDF file of the entire article that appeared in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America in 1908.. In my posting I did not mention the text you quote because subscribers to the GOAL list who

[GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

To reply to Tom Walker's question - Do those who make PDFs of journal articles that were never copyrighted have a valid claim to a copyright of their PDF of the article? - no, in Berne countries. Copyright dates from first fixation in a medium. Whether this is fixation on paper of PDF makes no

[GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

Dear Tom This might have something to do with business plan, even though it is at the very bottom of the article landing page Pay Per Article - You may access this article (from the computer you are currently using) for 1 day for

[GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

This is an important question. Here is a related question: can third parties that were never involved in the creation of a work, either directly or through an agreed copyright transfer from the creator, claim copyright based on technological manipulation of copyrighted works? If not now, will