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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Hess, Charlotte; Revelle, Andrew |
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Journal:
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The Common Property Resource Digest |
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Volume:
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72 |
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Date:
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2005 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3318
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Sector:
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Information & Knowledge |
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Subject(s):
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copyright
intellectual property rights
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Abstract:
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"Authors often do not know much about copyright and simply hand over their rights to publishers. Typically a publisher will ask you to sign a copyright/license agreement. The documents purpose is to transfer to the publisher ownership of copyright in your work or otherwise convey to the publisher a bundle of rights, one of which is the right to publish your article. The right to self-archive the refereed postprint is a legal matter, because the copyright transfer agreement pertains to that text. But the pre-refereeing preprint is self archived at a time when no copyright transfer agreement exists and the author holds exclusive and full copyright. So publisher policy forbidding prior self-archiving of preprints is not a legal matter, but merely a journal policy matter.
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