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

[Jan Velterop <velteropvonleyden@btinternet.com>]

On 3 Jul 2004, at 16:15, Rick Anderson wrote:

> > 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 doesn't. The copyright holder is the only one who can exercise her
right to make her work truly open access (i.e. enlist the help of anybody
willing to copy and distribute the article further). She does this because
it is in her interest to do so. This is *using* her exclusive right; not
'abdicating' it.

Jan Velterop

> 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.
>
> Rick Anderson
> rickand@unr.edu