RE: Author Copyright Issue (SLEEP)

["Sally Morris" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

You will find ALPSP's Licence to Publish for their own journal, 
Learned Publishing, at 
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?id=328&groupid=196&groupname=Research+%26++Publications


Sally Morris
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Thatcher
Sent: 21 January 2011 00:30
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Author Copyright Issue (SLEEP)

Sure, if you have the funding to publish your journal OA, by all means do
so. If you want to recover costs from sales, however, and want to stay in
business, accepting nonexclusive licensing is madness because you then have
no way to defend yourself against any infringement of the content you
publish.

I'm not sure what Heather means when she says that ALPSP "moved to
nonexclusive licensing." I just prepared a book review for ALPSP's Learned
Publishing, and the contract I signed grants "exclusive" rights to ALPSP.

CC licenses do permit users to do many things and, in this sense, grant
nonexclusive licenses for these activities to all users.

If we are going to educate people about these matters, we first have to know
what we are talking about!

Sandy Thatcher