On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 05:13 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
Nature, outpacing even the highly progressive American Physical Society (APS), has once again led the planet's 20,000 peer-reviewed journals in introducing the optimal and inevitable copyright policy for the online era: http://makeashorterlink.com/?I31721703 (Many thanks to APS's Mark Doyle for pointing this out!)
Not so fast... As I said, the exclusive, open-ended license isn't enforceable in all countries. Also, where in the sample does it say the author can put the published content (the author's own format) onto an e-print server (the license is ambiguous regarding Nature's formatted version vs. the author formatted version). It only speaks of the "Contribution". It seems much more restrictive to me than the rights APS grants back to the authors. Cheers, Mark
