<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div> This is an old issue. Kevin Smith is correct. Here's my version of why from 2006. <a href="http://carrollogos.blogspot.com/2006/05/copyright-in-pre-prints-and-post.html">http://carrollogos.blogspot.com/2006/05/copyright-in-pre-prints-and-post.html</a>. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The way to understand this is to forget about the sequence by which an article is produced and think only about the rights that a copyright owner has. On Professor Oppenheim's view, the copyright owner's exclusive right of reproduction would be limited to controlling only verbatim copies. If that were true, I would be free to republish the entire corpus of Elsevier publications if I make only small changes to the articles similar to the differences between a final draft and the final publication. Needless to say, if this were the law, some clever publisher would have done just as I suggest. But, this is not the law in the US or in the UK. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>So even if the publisher were to be assigned rights only in the final version of an article – and most publication agreements are not this limited – the scope of those rights would preclude posting of substantially similar versions whether those versions were created before or after the published version is produced. (US law uses the term "substantially similar" whereas UK law asks whether the copyright work has been copied "in substantial part" but it effectively means the same thing in this context. See <a href="http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-about/c-economic.htm">http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-about/c-economic.htm</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Now, Steven Harnad is quite correct that in a majority of publication agreements, the publisher receives exclusive rights either by assignment or by exclusive license and then grants back to the author the non-exclusive rights to post some earlier version of the article. And, he is quite correct that not enough authors exercise the rights they have under their existing publication agreements. He is also right that they may (and should!) deposit copies of their final manuscripts in institutional or disciplinary repositories because the act of deposit is covered by the exceptions and limitations to copyright – such as fair use or fair dealing – in a substantial number of countries around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><div>Michael W. Carroll</div><div>Professor of Law and Director,</div><div>Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property</div><div>American University Washington College of Law</div><div>4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW</div><div>Washington, D.C. 20016</div><div>Office: 202.274.4047</div><div><br></div><div>Faculty page: <a href="http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll">http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll</a>/</div><div>Blog: <a href="http://carrollogos.blogspot.com">http://carrollogos.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Creative Commons: <a href="http://creativecommons.org">http://creativecommons.org</a></div><div>Public Library of Science: <a href="http://www.plos.org">http://www.plos.org</a></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Richard Poynder <<a href="mailto:richard.poynder@btinternet.com">richard.poynder@btinternet.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, February 4, 2014 5:17 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)'" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [GOAL] Charles Oppenheim on who owns the rights to scholarly articles<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">The recent decision by Elsevier to start sending take down notices to sites like Academia.edu, and to individual universities, demanding that they remove self-archived papers from their web sites has sparked a debate about the copyright status of different versions of a scholarly paper.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Last week, the Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University in the US, Kevin Smith, published a blog post challenging a widely held assumption amongst OA advocates that when scholars transfer copyright in their papers they transfer only the final version of the article. This is not true, Smith argued.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If correct, this would seem to have important implications for Green OA, not least because it would mean that publishers have greater control over self-archiving than OA advocates assume.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">However Charles Oppenheim, a UK-based copyright specialist, believes that OA advocates are correct in thinking that when an author signs a copyright assignment only the rights in the final version of the paper are transferred, and so authors retain the rights to all earlier versions of their work, certainly under UK and EU law. As such, they are free to post earlier versions of their papers on the Web.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Charles Oppenheim explains his thinking here: <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/guest-post-charles-oppenheim-on-who.html">http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/guest-post-charles-oppenheim-on-who.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Richard Poynder<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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