<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">To reply to Tom Walker's question - <span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span>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.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">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"). <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Chris<br></p><p></p>Chris Zielinski<br><a href="mailto:chris@chriszielinski.com">chris@chriszielinski.com</a><br>Blogs: <a href="http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com">http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com</a> and <a href="http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com">http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com</a> <br>Research publications: <a href="http://www.researchgate.net">http://www.researchgate.net</a><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 January 2016 at 21:11, Walker,Thomas J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjw@ufl.edu" target="_blank">tjw@ufl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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
<i>Annals</i><span style="color:#1f497d">: </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/179" title="http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/179
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" target="_blank">http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/179</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">You will see under the title of the article a DOI followed by “</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">First published online: 1 September 1908”, a claim that is difficult to square with the history of the
internet.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Beneath the abstract is this claim to copyright: “© 1908 Entomological Society of America.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d">Question:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d">Tom</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">Thomas J. Walker
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Department of Entomology & Nematology <br>
PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive) <br>
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">E-mail: <a href="mailto:tjw@ufl.edu" target="_blank">tjw@ufl.edu</a> FAX: (352)392-0190<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">Web: <a href="http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/" target="_blank">http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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