RE: copyright protection paper

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

I have in front of me a manuscript submission form that reads in part: "5.
Note for US government employees...If the article was jointly written,
tthe authors understand that they are delegating the right of copyright to
the nongovernment employee, who must sign this agreement."

This publisher is apparently asking the government authors to donate to
him the government's right, this to be certified by the non-government
author. I'm not a lawyer, but somehow I doubt this is valid.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman@liu.edu

(and, formerly: Princeton University Library)