Re: John Wiley on RoMEO and John the Baptist on Supererogation

2009-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 17-Feb-09, at 4:32 AM, Ian Stuart wrote: Leslie Carr wrote: HOWEVER one step away (literally) from the W-B Best Practice document is the W-B Copyright FAQ in which they elaborate that although the ELF is used for societies, the

Re: John Wiley on RoMEO and John the Baptist on Supererogation

2009-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Talat Chaudhri t.chaud...@ukoln.ac.uk wrote (on JISC-REPOSITORIES): Clearly the copyright system is incoherent and difficult, but nonetheless these publishers have indisputable copyright and may licence it as they please, even incoherently. 

Re: Fair-Use/Schmair-Use...

2009-02-17 Thread Arthur Sale
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Charles   I am glad to see you acknowledging now that assigning copyright is not the same as selling your house or car

Re: John Wiley on RoMEO and John the Baptist on Supererogation

2009-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 17-Feb-09, at 9:21 AM, c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: Let me make my position clear. Comments that I make have no legal authority. I take no responsibility for any actions a reader might take (or not take) as a result of reading my opinion, and that in any cases of doubt, readers should

Fwd: [BOAI] BU goes open access for faculty scholarship

2009-02-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message: From: Carolina Rossini carolina.rossini  gmail.com List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: February 17, 2009 9:42:50 AM EST (CA) To: BOAI Forum boai-forum  ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [BOAI]  BU goes open access for faculty scholarship

Re: Fair-Use/Schmair-Use...

2009-02-17 Thread c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] I did say I would not comment further on this, but Arthur makes some incorrect claims.   Moral Rights are nothing to do