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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">... to be more specific.<br>
Germany, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Spain... apply or used to apply
the same rule as Poland in respect to "future fields of
exploitation", namely disallowing copyright transfer on fields of
exploitation unknown at the time of the contract. Source: <a
href="http://books.google.pl/books?id=03GwJ17bt-QC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=future+forms+of+exploitation+copyright&source=bl&ots=rXNAKBeSDm&sig=RdcibHxNN8oCeBpt4SVjj8eXG0g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-ArsUq2zAYO0hAe7soHYCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=future%20forms%20of%20exploitation%20copyright&f=false">this
book</a>, sect. 3.2.5.<br>
<br>
Therefore, all publications governed by law of these countries and
published before internet era belong to respective authors as far
as online use is concerned. Note that this includes publications
by one of the biggest publishers, Springer. I looked into
copyright transfer agreement that I had to sign a few years ago
with Springer - it states that it's governed by German law, so I
suspect that all past Springer publications are governed by German
law, too.<br>
<br>
Marcin<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/31/2014 09:13 PM, Marcin
Wojnarski wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:52EC03FA.2050200@tunedit.org" type="cite">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">That's wonderful!<br>
In Polish copyright law, there has been always the concept of
"fields of exploitation" of a creative work. For the transfer
of copyright to be legally correct and binding, all intended
fields of exploitation must be explicitly named in the
contract between author and publisher. If a given field is not
specified, copyright is not transfered for this field of use.
Moreover, it's not allowed to use general statements like "all
fields of exploitation" or "all future fields of exploitation"
- this is incorrect and has no legal effect. For a reference,
see: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Polish_Copyright_Law">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Polish_Copyright_Law</a>
(Article 41, p. 2 & 4) or <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.artserwis.pl/index.php?f=1&fgid=1&fqid=23">http://www.artserwis.pl/index.php?f=1&fgid=1&fqid=23</a>
(in Polish).<br>
<br>
Now, internet and digital distribution is a new, separate
field of exploitation. But in contracts signed before internet
era, say until 90s, this field couldn't have been specified,
so all those contracts are valid only for traditional forms of
use of the work and not for the web. Thus, for internet use,
copyright to these publications still belongs to respective
authors and not to publishers. :)<br>
<br>
That's how it works in Poland. It can be different in other
countries.<br>
<br>
Marcin<br>
<br>
<br>
On 01/31/2014 04:46 PM, Tom Olijhoek wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAGyWN8ZPsz2ZmUE2=_4R5H6ctsAY5GLh123z-zQ2PHs2Ck2h4Q@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Isn't it the case that for everything published
before 1999 the copyright does not apply to any electronic
version?
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Tom<br>
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