This information is slightly out of date - Copyright in the US no longer has
to be registered (although many people still recommend registration as an
additional safeguard)
Sally
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fytton Rowland" <J.F.Rowland_at_lboro.ac.uk>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Open Access Does Not require Republishing and Reprinting Rights
> Copyright is, I believe, significantly different in the UK and the USA. In
> the UK, as Iain says, copyright exists as soon as a text is written by its
> author, whether it is published or not. In the USA, copyright has to be
> registered. In Europe there are moral rights (such as the right to be
> identified as the author of your work) which remain with the author even if
> the copyright is transferred to another.
>
> If something has been placed in the public domain, anyone may use it for any
> purpose whatsoever without reference to the author. Academic authors who
> favour Open Access are definitionally happy for anyone to read, download and
> print off their scholarly papers free of charge. However, I for one would
> be unhappy if a publisher were to take one of my (free) papers off the WWW
> and include it in a collection of some sort which is then sold, without any
> reference to me. I would not necessarily want any money but I'd like to be
> asked! So I think authors are well advised to assert copyright in their
> material even if they intend to allow unlimited free access to it.
>
> Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK
Received on Fri Jan 16 2004 - 20:43:56 GMT