Hi
Yes, you are correct. Joint authors share copyright ownership (unless
it is ceded to the journal) (and unless one author was specifically
responsible for a discrete part of the article - which is unusual),
and therefore joint rights.
This means that if the journal (or the funding mandate) grant
Following on from Heather's post, Nature Publishing Group can offer some more
data on author choice of licenses on Scientific Reports. Since we introduced
CC-BY as an option in July 2012, authors have chosen CC-BY on 5% of papers.
1 January 2011 to 30 June 2012
* Two license choices were avai
In U.S. Copyright Law, joint authors are co-owners of the copyright in the work
(see Section 201(a) of Title 17). This means that each author can individually
exercise their rights under copyright, but are accountable to each other for
any profits made. For institutional repositories, we advis
Hi all,
In US law, a work is jointly authored only if each author contributed
copyrightable expression that was intended to be merged into a single work and
that the authors intended to be joint authors. In many other cases, you may
have two independent authors - one of the text and ano
I would be interested in who took the decision to offer a range or licences
and whether this has had any consultation outside NPG.
>From my viewpoint I see it as a publisher taking unilateral decisions about
the dissemination of knowledge without community involvement. NPG will
(naturally) do what
Stephen
That used to true a long time ago, but may not be still. Two concepts have
developed, at least to me here in Australia.
The first is the 'corresponding author'. This is the person that the journal
corresponds with, and the journal requires that person to acquire all
signatures and
To state the obvious: Nature is offering researchers the choice to
make their own decision about a range of CC licenses. This is not a
unilateral decision! On the contrary, it is publishers who offer only
one choice (such as CC-BY) that are making a unilateral decision.
As an open access adv
