Paul, you are correct, however there is copyright protection on typesetting within the UK (Typographic Right: it lasts 25 years from publication), I don't know if there is a similar protection within the USA (and anyway these articles are likely to be clear of this by now). Pippa
On Tuesday, May 26, 2015, Paul Royster <[email protected]> wrote: > No. If copyright was not transferred by contract or agreement, the > publisher has no claim or basis to prevent the author's re-use or > redistribution (in the USA). > > > > There is no separate claim or rights on the publisher-produced printed > edition or pdf. Copyright applies only to content, not to formatting. > > > > It does not matter who made the pdf, either. That is a mechanical process, > devoid of the creative act required for copyright. > > > > Paul Royster > > Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries > > 306 Love Library > > University of Nebraska-Lincoln > > 402 472-3628 > > [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > > http://digitalcommons.unl.edu > > > > *From:* [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> [mailto: > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>] *On Behalf Of > *Walker,Thomas J > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:09 PM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *Subject:* [GOAL] Copyright claims on early articles in society journals > > > > Once the Internet and the PDF format made it easy to do so, I made PDFs of > all my published articles freely available on my department's server and > have done so ever since. Now 83 and emeritus, I decided it would be > interesting to find out if the University of Florida could provide > unrestricted access to PDF's of my journal articles in its institutional > repository (IR@UF <http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ir>). With one major exception, > repository staff found few problems with posting the PDF files with a CC-BY > rights statement. That exception was 19 articles published from 1967 > through 1998 in journals of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). > Of the 19 articles, 13 were published before 1978, the year when ESA > began requiring its authors (other than those working for the USDA) to sign > copyright agreements. > > > > If the author of a journal article did not sign a copyright agreement, > does the publisher (ESA in this case) have the right to prohibit the author > from providing open access to an author-made PDF of the article? > > > > ==================================== > > Thomas J. Walker > > Department of Entomology & Nematology > > University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 > > ==================================== > > > > > -- Pippa ***** Pippa Smart Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting Oxford, UK Tel: +44 1865 864255 or +44 7775 627688 email: [email protected] Web: www.pspconsulting.org **** Editor-in-Chief of *Learned Publishing <http://www.learned-publishing.org>* Editor of the *ALPSP Alert <http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/ResearchPublications/ALPSPAlert.aspx>*, ****
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