From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:45:37 -0800

And what about the "after version"?

If I have something good to add to the final version of the article -
may I self-archive this addition together with what was already
accepted for publication and signed as copyright?

Ari Belenkiy


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:09:47 +0000
>
> The recent decision by Elsevier to start sending take down notices to
> sites like Academia.edu, and to individual universities, demanding
> that they remove self-archived papers from their web sites has sparked
> a debate about the copyright status of different versions of a
> scholarly paper.
>
> Last week, the Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University in
> the US, Kevin Smith, published a blog post challenging a widely held
> assumption amongst OA advocates that when scholars transfer copyright
> in their papers they transfer only the final version of the article.
> This is not true, Smith argued.
>
> If correct, this would seem to have important implications for Green
> OA, not least because it would mean that publishers have greater
> control over self-archiving than OA advocates assume.
>
> However Charles Oppenheim, a UK-based copyright specialist, believes
> that OA advocates are correct in thinking that when an author signs a
> copyright assignment only the rights in the final version of the paper
> are transferred, and so authors retain the rights to all earlier
> versions of their work, certainly under UK and EU law. As such, they
> are free to post earlier versions of their papers on the Web.
>
> Charles Oppenheim explains his thinking here:
>
> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/guest-post-charles-oppenheim-on-who.html