[Open-access] Authors' manuscripts

Wed Feb 15 12:24:45 UTC 2012

I cannot say anything on US copyright but from the viewpoint of German
law the protection refers to a work. AM = VoR in respect of copyright.

KG

2012/2/15 Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>:
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> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 2012/2/15 Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>:
>> > I have copied this list into a reply from Elsevier on the GOAL list.
>> > This
>> > gives us an important source of BOAI manuscripts
>> >
>> > When authors deposit their pre-publication manuscript under green open
>> > access the copyright resides with the authors not the publishers.
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>> Publishers own the copyright of the work not of a version.
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> Please clarify with regard to the particular case. This is my ignorance. Are
> you saying that the AM (author's manuscript) and the VoR (version of record)
> are the same work? And does the publisher actually hold the copyright?
>
> I don't see any copyright statement on
> http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sxs98ltb/chambersLobbButlerHarveyTraill.pdf
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> P.
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> Peter Murray-Rust
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