>FYI, the IEEE requires me to assign anything that I publish in their >journals (for me, a lot) to them or I don't get published in their journals.
And it makes sense that IEEE does. IEEE's goal is to distribute what you write via a variety of means (using known and as yet unknown technologies) and I presume your motivation for writing is to have your work as widely distributed as possible. At the time they came up with this policy there was considerable discussion of what was the appropriate thing to do. IEEE typically loses money on its publications. IEEE's publishing goal is the dissemination of knowledge, not making a profit. Most of their publications have no advertising. With other publishers it is not so clear. For example there was a long writer's strike when the Washington Post tried something similar and the writers were justified in their objection. The Post wanted additional rights and did not want to pay an additional fee. (I don't recall how that dispute concluded.) ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
