Re: SPARC Author Addendum compatibility

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

On 2007-07-25 03:18, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> 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.

Stating the intent is goodness (and as Simon says, the intent is even
broader). But I wonder whether crafting the legal wording isn't yet
another thing to punt to the Trust?

     Brian

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