Re: All Rights Reserved

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Dan L. Burk <burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu> wrote:
>
> On 1/22/99, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]attymail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here's the first page down to Dan's name (I've left-justified it):
> >
> > Copyright (c) 1998 University of South Carolina
> > South Carolina Law Review
>
> Which is wrong, since I did not assign them a copyright -- just a
> nonexclusive license to publish. I've never been clear on when this
> gets added in the law review process, but I think it's actually
> added by LEXIS.

I think that that's correct.

Westlaw includes a copyright notice indicating Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal as a copyright owner one of my articles. The Journal has no rights to my article other than first publication rights and the right to authorize publication in Lexis and Westlaw. And I know that the Journal did not claim a copyright in my article when licensing Lexis and Westlaw, because I was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal at the time of the license. The addition of SCC&HTLJ as a copyright owner appears to have been gratuitously added by West.

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