RE: OA and copyright -- Andy Gass quote in LJ News Wire

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> By doing so, they do not give up or transfer their copyright, but *use* 
> their copyright to achieve the widest possible distribution of their 
> article.

Well, that's only partially true.  Actually, by doing so the author
actually gives up about two and a half of the five exclusive rights
delineated by U.S. copyright law: she fully abdicates her exclusive rights
to copy and to distribute the article.  She probably also effectively
gives up the exclusive right to display it publicly.  That leaves the
author with the exclusive right to create derivative versions and -- for
what it's worth in regard to a research article -- to publicly perform the
work.

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickand@unr.edu