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

[Walker,Thomas J]

Dear Donat,

Thanks for pointing out the $39 fee that OUP asks for 1 day of access to  the PDF file of the entire article that appeared in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America in 1908..

In my posting I did not mention the text you quote because subscribers to the GOAL list who are at institutions that subscribe to the ESA Annals are spared seeing the text that is below the notice of copyright in the page that most GOAL subscribers saw. This shorter version of the page is also what ESA members see—provided they are using computers that have cookies that reveal they are ESA members and therefore entitled to free access to the OUP archive of ESA back files.

Tom

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Donat Agosti
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 4:35 PM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

Dear Tom
This might have something to do with business plan, even though it is at the very bottom of the article landing page

Pay Per Article<http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/highwire/payment/ppv/71823> - You may access this article (from the computer you are currently using) for 1 day for US$39.00

Griault deceased May 2, 1941, 75 years ago…

Donat

Donat Agosti
Plazi
Web: http://Plazi.org
Switzerland


From: goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Walker,Thomas J
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 10:11 PM
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Subject: [GOAL] Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted



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​.


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.

•         Beneath the abstract is this claim to copyright: “© 1908 Entomological Society of America.”

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?

Tom
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