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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">No. If copyright was not transferred by contract or agreement, the publisher has no claim or basis to prevent the author’s re-use or redistribution (in the USA).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">There is no separate claim or rights on the publisher-produced printed edition or pdf. Copyright applies only to content, not to formatting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It does not matter who made the pdf, either. That is a mechanical process, devoid of the creative act required for copyright.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paul Royster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">306 Love Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Nebraska–Lincoln<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">402 472-3628<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:proyster@unl.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">proyster@unl.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://digitalcommons.unl.edu</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Walker,Thomas J<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> GOAL@eprints.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Copyright claims on early articles in society journals<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Once the Internet and the PDF format made it easy to do so, I made PDFs of all my published articles freely available on my department's server and have done so ever since. Now 83 and emeritus, I decided it would be interesting to find
out if the University of Florida could provide unrestricted access to PDF's of my journal articles in its institutional repository (<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ir">IR@UF</a>). With one major exception, repository staff found few problems with posting the
PDF files with a CC-BY rights statement. That exception was 19 articles published from 1967 through 1998 in journals of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). Of the 19 articles, 13 were published before 1978, the year when ESA began requiring its
authors (other than those working for the USDA) to sign copyright agreements. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">If the author of a journal article did not sign a copyright agreement, does the publisher (ESA in this case) have the right to prohibit the author from providing open access to an author-made PDF of the article?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thomas J. Walker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Department of Entomology & Nematology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620<o:p></o:p></p>
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