On 11 Aug 2006, at 15:36, Simeon Warner wrote:
> I disagree with Stevan here, and this is not the policy we follow
> at arXiv. If you expect a preprint to allow authors to establish
> priority then you are saying that the preprint has become part of
> the scholarly record and it should thus not be removed. In arXiv we
> allow authors to post a withdrawal notice but old versions remain
> publicly available (in a very small number of cases of copyright
> infringement and personal insult we have removed articles).
I suppose this is an issue of Policy - it may not be an explicit
policy of a repository to establish priority.
Can you indicate (policy aside) whether you know of examples where
arxiv has been used to decide priority, and whether it stood up in
court?
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Les
Received on Fri Aug 11 2006 - 16:28:45 BST