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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In the absence of an instrument (contract, agreement, etc.) transferring copyright, your copyright was retained by you. An ex post facto resolution is not a substitute for a transfer agreement.<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>
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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> Monday, October 19, 2015 9:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] For a publisher to claim copyright, must the author sign a contract?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Annals of the Entomological Society of America</span></i><span style="color:#1F497D"> is a journal, founded in 1904. In it, I published more than 20 papers between 1957 and 2009. In 1966, ESA began posting
a copyright statement on the table of contents of each issue. In 1978 after asking for a vote from ESA members and receiving the consent of the majority, ESA began requiring authors to sign a statement that transferred the copyright of their work to ESA<i>.
Between 1967 and 1977, I published 10 papers in the </i>ESA Annals<i> and signed no statements in regard to copyrights</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Early this year, the University of Florida’s institutional repository (<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/ir">IR@UF</a>) hired an intern to work with me to make the PDF files of my contributions to the journal literature
easily available online. At the end of the intern’s project, it turned out that ESA was the only publisher that had refused the IR’s request to post the PDFs of any of my articles. This included 12 items, 6 or which were in other ESA journals.
<i>It did not include the 10 papers published in the Annals in 1967-1977, but that permission was granted only after I protested I had signed no copyright statement.</i> In granting the permission to post the PDFs of these papers, ESA asked that the Rights
Management statement include the URL that would take the user to the free abstract of the article on the Oxford Journal’s server (for example,
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"><a href="http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/4/752">http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/4/752</a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">).
You might notice that at the bottom of the page, the unaffiliated user is offered the opportunity to pay US$39.00 to view a [copy-proof] PDF of my article for 24 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">Under current US copyright law, does ESA have a valid claim of copyright to my 10 articles published in its
<i>Annals</i> between 1967 and 1977?, even though I signed no copyright statement?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">Should you care to view the final product of the intern’s work, it is at
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/tjwbib">http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/tjwbib</a>. For a summary of ESA’s copyright history, see its
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/IR00007182/00001">Table 2</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thomas J. Walker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Department of Entomology & Nematology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">E-mail: <a href="mailto:tjw@ufl.edu">
tjw@ufl.edu</a> Phone: 352-273-3920<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Web: <a href="http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/">
http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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