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SPARC Author Addendum compatibility
In the WG meeting today, it was strongly suggested that the IETF would
benefit from having its rules for licences from authors and authors' rights
be compatible with the SPARC Author Addendum, which makes sure an author
continues to have the right to reuse his contribution in other contexts.
I believe this has always been the intent of IETF's "assign no copyright"
policy, but it would be a Good Thing to make sure that we are in fact
compatible with that document.
The SPARC addendum is housed at:
<http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/>
The addendum itself can be found under the page (I had to generate a fake
addendum; ymmv), and the critical part of text seems to be:
Author's Retention of Rights. Notwithstanding any terms in the Publication
Agreement to the contrary, AUTHOR and PUBLISHER agree
that in addition to any rights under copyright retained by Author in the
Publication Agreement, Author retains: (i) the rights to reproduce, to
distribute, to publicly perform, and to publicly display the Article in any
medium for non-commercial purposes; (ii) the right to prepare derivative
works from the Article; and (iii) the right to authorize others to make any
non-commercial use of the Article so long as Author receives credit as
author and the journal in which the Article has been published is cited as
the source of first publication of the Article. For example, Author may
make and distribute copies in the course of teaching and research and may
post the Article on personal or institutional Web sites and in other
open-access digital repositories.
With some massage to fit with our commonly used vocabulary, I think adding
such a section to the -incoming document (and explaining that our intent is
to be compatible with the SPARC addendum) is a Good Thing.
Comments?
Harald
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