On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Alan Story wrote: > The ALPSP may call their deal a "model licence"...but instead it should be > called a "Model-T (as in circa 1930 Model-T Ford ) licence." > > Yes, the author gets the possibility of retaining copyright, but the > publisher is assigned (at no cost to the publisher it should be underlined) > ALL of the other rights, including digitalisation rights, re-publication > rights, rights regarding non-profit educational uses of the work. > > Hence, AFTER hard copy publication (and hence not conflicting with Harnad's > "subversive proposal"), the publisher has the right to prevent any "open > archiving" by an author(X) or her/his work and the right to charge the > students of X's colleague a copyright royalty fee for the non-profit > educational use of that article.
Please see my original comments on the ALPSP "model license" when it was announced in this Forum in 1999 (the URL is long and may truncate in your mailer, so you may have to use the mouse rather than just clicking on it): http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind99&L=september98-forum&F=l#6 To clarify the Subversive Proposal: http://www.arl.org/sc/subversive/ The ONLY thing that the authors of refereed research papers want or need is the right to self-archive publicly online in perpetuo. **That is all!** The rest is taken care of by the nature of the Web itself. A publicly archived document is accessible to anyone and everyone with access to the Net/Web. Please do not conflate this very important and clearcut right, unique to the refereed research literature, which is and always has been an author give-away, with other copyright concerns, having to do with "fair use", "intellectual property," etc. Those are all worthy causes but NOT the same as what is the primary focus of this Forum, which is the refereed research literature, written by researchers, for researchers, and for research itself. If we mix up the two (for-research/for-teaching, or give-away/non-give-away), we not only cloud the picture, but we delay the optimal/inevitable outcome (for the refereed research literature): http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#5 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1 The following is all that is needed in a copyright statement for the refereed research literature (but ALPSP alas does not seem to quite provide it)(from: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/copyright.html): "I hereby transfer to [publisher or journal] all rights to sell or lease the text (paper and online) of [paper-title]. I retain only the right to distribute it for free for scholarly/scientific or educational purposes, in particular, the right to self-archive it publicly online on the Web." The American Physical Society version of this same basic arrangement is at ftp://aps.org/pub/jrnls/copy_trnsfr.asc : "The author(s) shall have the following rights: The author(s) agree that all copies of the Article made under any of these following rights shall include notice of the APS copyright... .... (3) The right, after publication by APS, to use all or part of the Article without revision or modification, including the APS-formatted version, in personal compilations or other publications of the author's own works, including the author's personal web home page, and to make copies of all or part of the Article for the author's use for lecture or classroom purposes. (4) The right to post and update the Article on e-print servers as long as files prepared and/or formatted by APS or its vendors are not used for that purpose. Any such posting made or updated after acceptance of the Article for publication shall include a link to the online abstract in the APS journal or to the entry page of the journal. [I might add only that the distinction between "personal web home page" and "e-print servers" is silly, incoherent, and hence untenable, but it makes no difference, if it makes some people happy to put it that way...] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad har...@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science har...@princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org