While I appreciate Robert Peet's explanation of ESA policy, the following paragraph seems disingenuous. There are many better ways to deal with this. One obvious solution would be to share the copyright so that either the author or ESA could authorise further use. There are many other options, such as "Creative Copyright" (http://creativecommons.org/), which offer refinements on this theme.
Bill Silvert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert K. Peet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: Re: ECOLOG-L Digest - 19 Nov 2005 to 20 Nov 2005 (#2005-299) > Note that ESA does require transfer of copyright. There is a good reason= > =20 > for this. We expect ESA to last a long time, longer than most authors=20 > will live or be locatable. We want to make sure that in the future it=20 > will be easy to find the owner of an article so that its contents can > be=20 > used in another work.
