[Open-access] Authors' manuscripts

[Mike Taylor]

This is a new an terrifying wrinkle.  If generally true, it seems to
punch a huge hole through Green OA.

-- Mike.


On 15 February 2012 12:24, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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>:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Publishers own the copyright of the work not of a version.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Murray-Rust
>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> University of Cambridge
>> CB2 1EW, UK
>> +44-1223-763069
>
> _______________________________________________
> open-access mailing list
> open-access at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access