Ran, first, it's not breaking the law, but going against the copyright owner's wishes, should the copyright owner decide that your actions go against its wishes. As such, any action will be a civil dispute, rather than a criminal prosecution.
Second, you will find that typical Springer Verlag copyright transfer agreements include the sentences "An author may self-archive an author-created version of his/her article on his/her own website and or in his/her institutional repository." and "Prior versions of the article published on non-commercial pre-print servers like arXiV.org can remain on these servers and/or can be updated with the author's accepted version." You can't share the final typseset Springer copy, which is their property, but you can share what you wrote prior to that, which is yours. Or, what you have written on the law can best be described as "overwhelmingly inaccurate." L. -----Original Message----- From: rrg-boun...@irtf.org [mailto:rrg-boun...@irtf.org] On Behalf Of Ran Atkinson Sent: 24 April 2010 13:39 To: IRTF Routing RG Subject: Re: [rrg] ILNP for IPv4 uses extra header. [..] > Please email me a copy of the paper. Unfortunately, Copyright Law (in Australia and elsewhere) means that I can't legally do so. [..] > Please make the above mentioned paper available on your site, or email > it to anyone on the list who wants to read it. You are suggesting that I break the law. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list rrg@irtf.org http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
