Christopher D. Green writes
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
>
> > Please note that you are now asking about embargo POLICY, not copyright
> > LAW, and embargo policy has no legal status. It is merely a practice
> > that a journal may or may not adopt, and may or may not follow (such
> > as not accepting articles in Spanish or on Experimental Oenology).
>
> This is a fine distinction in principle, but in practice it makes no
> difference for people who must attempt to publish
...
Could not agree more. At the end of the day, each author has
a choice to make between getting published and surrender copyright,
or not getting published and continue to have the right to
self-archive.
For journals, that is a tough choice.
But it is a different matter for conference proceedings. The
prestige from giving a paper at a conference comes from presenting
it there. It does not really come from having the paper included
in the conference proceedings. I have just written to the organisers
of ECDL2000
http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/
that I and my co-authors will not surrender the copyright to our paper
http://openlib.org/home/krichel/phoenix.html
to Springer for inclusion in the proceedings. I presume that I will
still be able to present the paper. It will simply not appear in the
conference proceedings, which I consider to be a minor inconvenience.
Has anybody here stories to share about copyright surrender refusal?
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel
http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 19:17:43 GMT