more about the situation in France.
>
> Jeroen Bosman
> Utrecht University Library
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> Of BAUIN Serge
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Subject: Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Willinsky proposes short copyright for research
articles
Hi there,
Just to let you know.
In Autumn 2016, a law has been passed in France stating in
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Objet : Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Willinsky proposes short copyright for research
articles
Back in the days when publishers were putting out a lot of anthologies, there
was ser
Back in the days when publishers were putting out a lot of anthologies, there
was serious money to be made by authors of journal articles that got reprinted
many times. One author of ours at Penn State during that era earned well over
$10,000 from reprint rights to one of his articles. Do you want
We may actually be in agreement, Stevan
You say this ""100 years or so of copyright protection" is something
scholarly journal-article authors never needed or wanted. It was just
foisted on them as a 'value added" they could not refuse."
I say this in my IPA article: "The key point is that th
Stevan,
It is far easier for Congress to change the law than for every US researcher to
insist on the proper version of CC BY, whatever that is. Plus CC BY still
restricts use, hence access, for the author's lifetime plus 70 years.
David
Ps: please forward this reply to the GOA list you poste
The copyright agreement already exists. It's called CC-BY. Authors needn't
invent it, just adopt it.
And there is no need or justification for any delay or embargo, whatsoever.
And "100 years or so of copyright protection" is something scholarly
journal-article authors never needed or wanted. It