> Do they grant the right, or do people just get away with it? We used to get away with it by publishing an in-house research report that was a preliminary version of what turned into the paper. That was many years ago, before the web. We actually printed hard copies. We had good in-house editors so the preliminary version was pretty good, maybe even better if interesting stuff had to be trimmed for the official paper.
Matt Blaze has a good blog entry on this mess: Why do IEEE and ACM act against the interests of scholars? http://www.crypto.com/blog/copywrongs/ Daniel: Your timing was "interesting". We just had a discussion on this topic a few days ago. If you want to review it, it's in the archives. Subject is Paywall rant, but a few comments probably rolled over to a few other threads. If you don't know how to find the archives, poke me off-list. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.