Re: Re: "University as author?"

Many law journals lagged decades behind the 1976 act and continued to require assignment of copyright to them rather than simple licensing. And many of the contracts even spoke of the work being copyrighted by the journal upon publication. I assume the same is true in many other academic journals relying upon pre-1978 contracts which really often don't quite make sense under the current law. I have had to negotiate this license/assignment deal a few times in my career due to the lag in updating contracts.

Steve

On Aug 16, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Terry Carroll wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Agenbroad, James (Civ,ARL/CISD) wrote:
>
>
>> I'd wager good money that he assigned (gave up) his copyrights for
>> free
>> to the journal that he published in.
>>
>
> Well, only if he owned it to begin with, right?
>
> Is this the standard practice, by the way? I've run one law
> journal, and
> our practice was to get a right of first publication, with right to
> sublicense for reprints and Lexis/Westlaw. The author retained his
> copyright.
>
>
>
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