[BOAI] Fwd: [GOAL] Re: Simple Explanation of the Green Road

[Stevan Harnad]

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From: Couture Marc <marc.couture at teluq.ca>
Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:23 PM
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Simple Explanation of the Green Road
To: "goal at eprints.org" <goal at eprints.org>


I've got no problem with Andrew Adam's "advice" concerning publishers'
possible (albeit unlikely) lawsuits or take-down requests when I read it in
the context of the page where it appears.

Andrew is careful enough to state first: "Where the publisher requires an
embargo or does not allow for open access, the full text must still be
deposited but set to closed access in the repository software."

If one follows **this** advice, no copyright infringement will occur. But
it is always possible that one misreads or misunderstands a publishers'
policy, which may be sometimes unclear, even self-contradictory, as has
been discussed in this forum. In that case, a good-faith response to a
take-down notice (i.e. reverting to closed access) seems to me to satisfy
both law and ethics.

Marc Couture

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