2009/8/1 Stevan Harnad :
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, C.Oppenheim wrote:
>
>> Thus, in law, if Dr Jones asks Dr Smith for an electronic copy of
>> Dr. Smith's article, and Dr Smith gave away the copyright to Megacorp
>> Publishers, then Dr Smith should strictly not supply that copy...
>>
>> Stevan and oth
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, C.Oppenheim wrote:
> Thus, in law, if Dr Jones asks Dr Smith for an electronic copy of
> Dr. Smith's article, and Dr Smith gave away the copyright to Megacorp
> Publishers, then Dr Smith should strictly not supply that copy...
>
> Stevan and others are of course correct that I
Isn't this similar to the 'right of way' laws which preclude property owners
from putting up a fence across a long-used public path through private property.
It would seem that a long term absence of any active attempt to restrict
authors from sharing their publications for non-commercial person
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Klaus Graf wrote:
> I do not think that using the request button is a valid OA strategy.
> My own experience was that I received few response when
> requesting an article. The St. Gallen IR manager said that
> requesters can obtain much more positive results when ma
May I confirm and endorse Marc Couture's very valid comments. The
Australian Copyright Act as amended up to date says as follows. Note
in particular clause (1) and clause (3). It really could not be much
more clearly stated! [My comments are in red and in square brackets.]
Indeed the Australia
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The Austrlain Act does indeed permit fair dealing for one's own research or
private study; but it doesn't permit copyi
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Stevan and others are of course correct that IN PRACTICE there is little a
publisher can do to stop this sort of activi
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Yes of course "fair use" and similar exceptions to copyright allow one to
make a copy of item whose copyright is owned
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:20 AM, C.Oppenheim wrote:
> CO: Yes of course "fair use" and similar exceptions to copyright allow one to
> make a copy of item whose copyright is owned by someone else for oneself
> for research or private study as long as that copying does not damage the
> legitimate co
