Re: copyright management information?

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Marilyn Uffner Alan <malan[_at_]mkp.com> wrote:
>
> Could be that the Journal is declaring its ownership of the copyright
> to the *compilation* of articles, in which case each contributor still
> owns copyright to his/her own article. So if someone for some reason
> wanted to reproduce the *entire* Journal, they would have to obtain
> permission from Duke Law Journal as well as from an author of each
> article (provided it was a non-exclusive license). If someone wanted
> to reproduce your article, they would have to get permission from you,
> since you did not sign over the copyright to the Journal. Seems to me
> that it would have benefited Duke to keep your copyright notice on your
> paper so that Duke would not have to go to the trouble of re-directing
> requests for permission to reprint the article, to the copyright holder,
> you. Perhaps they stripped out your copyright notice to make all the
> articles appear uniform.
>

Perhaps, but the fact that they removed my copyright notice, *and* put their own notice of copyright on the cover of the single-article reprint, makes me think otherwise. And even if it were done in good faith, there is no question that it will make the reader think otherwise.

Mark Lemley
<mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> Received on Mon Mar 29 1999 - 15:39:14 GMT