Ok. Joseph has had the last word. But now I am using the moderator's prerogative to invoke cloture on this topic in the American Scientist Forum: Until relevant and substantive new data or documentation is brought to bear on the topic, there will be no more postings on the alternative of making one's papers public-domain as a means of freeing the refereed research literature from online access tolls. Please re-direct any further postings on this topic to the CNI Copyright list: cni-copyri...@cni.org -- SH
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Joseph Pietro Riolo wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Stevan Harnad <har...@cogprints.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > Joseph Riolo has not understood this point and I do not think anything > > is gained from further repetition, unless there is some new, pertinent > > information introduced. > > To be very blunt (forgive me), Stevan Harnad's position on copyright > is flatly wrong. I am a bit worried that his position will become > Achilles heel for some or many authors in the long term. The authors > must always follow this commandment if they want to accomplish > the goals in making their works available to the public without > charge: You must not transfer, assign, or give up your whole > copyright to anyone else anytime in your life. > > Putting your work in the public domain is a nice alternative > and is much simpler than many other approaches but I am fully > aware that this is not a popular option. So be it. > > Joseph Pietro Riolo > <ri...@voicenet.com> > > Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this > post in the public domain. >