Stevan: Sally Morris' note raised the issue of copyright and journals on your list. And so I responded with a copyright and journals-related response. If you do not want copyight-related posts, then don't put them on the first place.
And no lectures, thank you. Alan Story . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: Re: PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Alan Story wrote: > > > The ALPSP may call their deal a "model licence"...but instead it should be > > called a "Model-T (as in circa 1930 Model-T Ford ) licence." > > > > Yes, the author gets the possibility of retaining copyright, but the > > publisher is assigned (at no cost to the publisher it should be underlined) > > ALL of the other rights, including digitalisation rights, re-publication > > rights, rights regarding non-profit educational uses of the work. > > > > Hence, AFTER hard copy publication (and hence not conflicting with Harnad's > > "subversive proposal"), the publisher has the right to prevent any "open > > archiving" by an author(X) or her/his work and the right to charge the > > students of X's colleague a copyright royalty fee for the non-profit > > educational use of that article. > > Please see my original comments on the ALPSP "model license" when it was > announced in this Forum in 1999 (the URL is long and may truncate in > your mailer, so you may have to use the mouse rather than just clicking > on it): > > http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind99&L=september98-forum&F= l#6 > > To clarify the Subversive Proposal: > > http://www.arl.org/sc/subversive/ > > The ONLY thing that the authors of refereed research papers want or > need is the right to self-archive publicly online in perpetuo. **That > is all!** The rest is taken care of by the nature of the Web itself. A > publicly archived document is accessible to anyone and everyone with > access to the Net/Web. > > Please do not conflate this very important and clearcut right, unique to > the refereed research literature, which is and always has been an author > give-away, with other copyright concerns, having to do with "fair use", > "intellectual property," etc. Those are all worthy causes but NOT the > same as what is the primary focus of this Forum, which is the refereed > research literature, written by researchers, for researchers, and for > research itself. > > If we mix up the two (for-research/for-teaching, or > give-away/non-give-away), we not only cloud the picture, but we delay > the optimal/inevitable outcome (for the refereed research literature): > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#5 > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1 > > The following is all that is needed in a copyright statement for the > refereed research literature (but ALPSP alas does not seem to > quite provide it)(from: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/copyright.html): > > "I hereby transfer to [publisher or journal] all rights to sell or > lease the text (paper and online) of [paper-title]. I retain only > the right to distribute it for free for scholarly/scientific or > educational purposes, in particular, the right to self-archive it > publicly online on the Web." > > The American Physical Society version of this same basic arrangement is > at ftp://aps.org/pub/jrnls/copy_trnsfr.asc : > > "The author(s) shall have the following rights: The author(s) > agree that all copies of the Article made under any of these > following rights shall include notice of the APS copyright... > > .... > > (3) The right, after publication by APS, to use all or part of > the Article without revision or modification, including the > APS-formatted version, in personal compilations or other > publications of the author's own works, including the author's > personal web home page, and to make copies of all or part of the > Article for the author's use for lecture or classroom purposes. > > (4) The right to post and update the Article on e-print servers > as long as files prepared and/or formatted by APS or its vendors > are not used for that purpose. Any such posting made or updated > after acceptance of the Article for publication shall include a > link to the online abstract in the APS journal or to the entry > page of the journal. > > [I might add only that the distinction between "personal web home page" > and "e-print servers" is silly, incoherent, and hence untenable, but it > makes no difference, if it makes some people happy to put it that way...] > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stevan Harnad [email protected] > Professor of Cognitive Science [email protected] > Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 > Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 > University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ > Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ > SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM > > NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free > access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the > American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): > > > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html > > You may join the list at the site above. > > Discussion can be posted to: > > [email protected] >
