On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Talat Chaudhri <t.chaud...@ukoln.ac.uk> wrote (on JISC-REPOSITORIES):
Clearly the copyright system is incoherent and difficult, but nonetheless these publishers have indisputable copyright and may licence it as they please, even incoherently. Even incoherently? I think Talat underestimates the supra-legal power of the Law of the Excluded Middle. Example: "You may deposit this article on the web if you have a blue-eyed maternal uncle AND you may not deposit this article on the web if you have a blue-eyed maternal uncle." Unverifiable, unenforcable, and incoherent. But Talat feels it would be "frankly inappropriate to tell others to break the law at their own risk" by ignoring something like this. There's no accounting for feelings. Be sensible (as the half-million physicists and three-quarter million computer scientists have been, for two decades now): Take the "risk." Stevan