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
Received on Thu Jan 09 2003 - 22:33:52 GMT