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Re: Association for Computer Machinery Copyright/Self-Archiving Policy

From: Richard Stallman <rms_at_gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:43:38 -0700

            the definitive copy in ACM's Digital Library, and (4) a notice that
            the copy is posted by permission of ACM and may not
            be redistributed. (See �2.5, �2.6 regarding CoRR, and �3.2.)

This condition prohibits mirror sites, which makes it unacceptable. I
hope authors will reject this condition.

When I have published articles in ACM publications, the ACM did not
push the point (which would have resulted in my saying no)--it
accepted unlimited nonexclusive rights, which was no problem for
anyone. I urge other authors to insist on this as well.

    He mentioned to me that the CoRR initiative, described at
    <http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_policy/>
    and <http://www.acm.org/corr/> has been extended up to June 2002.

    In short each SIG is free to experiment and put their papers in
    electronic form in a free repository hosted here
    <http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs>, with a perpetual free availability.

When papers are posted in this archive, do they permit mirror sites?
Received on Tue Mar 19 2002 - 11:50:17 GMT

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