Re: ALPSP creates model Grant of License for journal articles

["Lesley Ellen Harris" <lesley@copyrightlaws.com>]

Is it really necessary for the license to be exclusive...what if it were
first rights to publish the article, then thereafter non-exclusive rights,
so that the author has more room for re-licensing after first publication in
any medium?

Lesley Ellen Harris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Okerson" <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 3:32 PM
Subject: ALPSP creates model Grant of License for journal articles


> Sally Morris, Secretary-General of ALPSP, sends the following message:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: "ALPSP" <sec-gen@alpsp.org.uk>
> Subject: ALPSP creates model Grant of Licence for journal articles
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:01:39 -0000
>
> After considerable helpful discussion with members of its Copyright
> Committee and others, ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional
> Society Publishers) has come up with a model 'Grant of Licence' form for
> journal articles, for use in cases where the publisher do not feel they
> have to acquire copyright, but nevertheless want to secure their rights as
> far as is reasonable.
>
> We believe that this may be a step forward in establishing the most
> author-friendly possible policies (the need for which was clearly
> highlighted by our research study, What Authors Want) and we hope that
> others will feel free to use it as a source document for their own
> journals (the bits in square brackets are intended to be optional;  in
> particular, it is unclear whether or not Moral Rights apply in the UK, but
> the lawyers among us have suggested that it may be safer to include it
> explicitly).  We shall be adopting it for ALPSP's own journal, Learned
> Publishing.
>
> I should also be very interested in any comments on the document.  Please
> do also feel free to let others know about it, point to it on our website
> (www.alpsp.org.uk) or whatever!
>
>
> Sally Morris, Secretary-General
> Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
> South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
>
> Phone:  01903 871686 Fax:  01903 871457 E-mail:  sec-gen@alpsp.org.uk
> ALPSP Website  http://www.alpsp.org.uk