[GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

[Chris Zielinski]

To reply to Tom Walker's question - Do those who make PDFs of journal
articles that were never copyrighted have a valid claim to a copyright of
their PDF of the article? - no, in Berne countries. Copyright dates from
first fixation in a medium. Whether this is fixation on paper of PDF makes
no difference.


However, I'm not sure what the position is in a Johnny-come-lately-to-Berne
country like the US, though (thinking of the protracted copyright life of
"Happy Birthday").


Chris

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On 10 January 2016 at 21:11, Walker,Thomas J <tjw at ufl.edu> wrote:

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> I am trying to understand the business plan that Oxford University Press
> (OUP) has for the subscription journals of the Entomological Society of
> America (ESA).  In doing so,  I found notices of copyright on abstracts of
> ESA articles from 1908 forward.  For example, see this abstract of an
> article published in 1908 in ESA’s *Annals*:
> http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/179​.
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> You will see under the title of the article a DOI followed by “First
> published online: 1 September 1908”, a claim that is difficult to square
> with the history of the internet.
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> ·         Beneath the abstract is this claim to copyright: “© 1908
> Entomological Society of America.”
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> Question:
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> Do those who make PDFs of journal articles that were never copyrighted
> have a valid claim to a copyright of their PDF of the article?
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> Tom
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