Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2001-11-09 Thread Stevan Harnad
I am afraid that the copyright discussion with Joseph Riolo is at cross-purposes because we are systematically discussing different kinds of texts, different kinds of authors, different kinds of purposes and different kinds of problems. The original question on this thread concerned whether the

Re: Interview with Elsevier Science

2001-11-09 Thread Steve Hitchcock
At 12:35 06/11/01 +, Barry Mahon wrote: Richard Poynder wrote: I shall be interviewing Michael Mabe, Elsevier Science's Director of Academic Relations, for a publication called Information Today (www.infotoday.com) next week, and would welcome suggestions from any users as to the kind

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2001-11-09 Thread Fytton Rowland
I find it very hard to believe that this is an accurate statement of US law! It implies that, if I write a novel and then I choose to sell its copyright absolutely to Stevan Harnad, he can then publish it, not just for his financial benefit, but with Stevan Harnad as author! Surely not. In

Re: Interview with Elsevier Science

2001-11-09 Thread Jeffery, KG (Keith)
Richard - thanks for the opportunity to comment via the September98 Forum list My department's responsibility includes the library so we have thought about it from both librarian and IT angles. I note also the comments from others to date. Our main qustions would concern: (1) Business

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2001-11-09 Thread Joseph Pietro Riolo
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Fytton Rowland j.f.rowl...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: In European Union law the distinction is clear. Copyright, as the term intellectual property implies, is a piece of property that can be bought and sold; so if I sell the right to make copies of my novel to Stevan, he can

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2001-11-09 Thread Joseph Pietro Riolo
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Stevan Harnad har...@cogprints.soton.ac.uk wrote: I am afraid that the copyright discussion with Joseph Riolo is at cross-purposes because we are systematically discussing different kinds of texts, different kinds of authors, different kinds of purposes and different kinds

Re: Interview with Elsevier Science

2001-11-09 Thread Stan Correy
hi richard , I haven't forgotten your email , although I'm immersed in a story about terrorism. I've noticed that harnad's list is very active at the moment discussing issues of copyright. I think that's the unresolved issue for me . and what I think publishers like elsevier have to confront