Timeline for Which rights do mathematicians usually have on their published works and how do they use them?
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| Oct 15, 2010 at 14:55 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | @Noah and Sam: Perhaps you could ask to reduce the copyright term of your paper to something more reasonable, like 28 years? At least this is the case with AMS: ams.org/notices/200403/commentary.pdf | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 22:17 | comment | added | Sam Nead | I have, several times, rewritten the form I was sent; I then send the journal a copy of the new form and ask if that would be ok. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 22:12 | comment | added | Sam Nead | @Noah - I very much agree. However not all publishers (or perhaps their author-facing-editors) understand that a) is better for them than b) is. I have been told by a representative of Commentarii that placing work in the public domain does not protect the author's rights. The representative at Duke simply refused to discuss the issue, saying that the lawyers would not permit it. Those are the only negative experiences I can remember right now -- anyway, in those cases I just gave up and went with option b). | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 18:12 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Fwiw the first option is much much better than the latter. The problem is that since copyright terms are now perpetual (i.e. will be expanded every time they're about to expire) if you retain copyright then when you die it will be impossible for anyone to ever obtain the rights to reprint it. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 17:11 | history | answered | Sam Nead | CC BY-SA 2.5 |