From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:30:23 -0500
Maybe I misread the blog posting -- it seemed to me to say that one
option for an author is to transfer partial copyright, rather than the
full set of rights.
We know that copyright can be divided, so one could theoretically
transfer certain rights and retain the rest. This type of division of
rights can be called a license, for sure -- but licenses can be
identified for any given period of time. For an author's license to
be a true "partial transfer of copyright," wouldn't it need to specify
that it is for the entire duration of the applicable copyright period?
Are authors' licenses to publishers generally written with this kind
of specific language, in effect making them serve as a partial
copyright transfer?
In the case of Haworth below, a non-exclusive license can't possibly
be a partial transfer of copyrights, can it?
Or maybe I'm splitting hairs here. Or asking my question poorly. I
suppose I'm saying that a partial copyright transfer and a license are
not the same thing.
Thoughts are welcomed. Ann
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:12 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: "Blobaum, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 13:35:30 +0000
>
> Sure, Look at the Journal of the Medical Library Association. This
> was common with Haworth journals before Taylor and Francis bought it.
> Authors retain copyright but give JMLA non exclusive license.
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Blobaum, M.A., M.S.
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> Full Professor
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> From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:26:15 -0500
>
> Here's an interesting blog posting -- does anyone know of any
> scholarly journals in which authors transfer copyright partially to
> their publishers? In principle it could be done, but do any journals
> do this?
>
> http://knowledgeisotopes.com/blog/open-access-and-copyright-the-changing-landscape-in-scholarly-publication/
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