Hall, Gary

Philosophises on “The Future of…”

• Open Access
• Academic Book Publishing
• the Peer-Reviewed Journal
• the Author
• Intellectual Property
• Piracy

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“But ‘where exclusive copyright in a “work for hire” has been transferred by the author to a publisher – i.e., the author has been paid (or will be paid royalties) in exchange for the text’, as is often the case in book publishing – it may well be that the author is not legally allowed to self-archive it. This is because, although the ‘text is still the author’s “intellectual property”, … the exclusive right to sell or give away copies of it has been transferred to the publisher’ (BOAI, 2002-4: non-pag.).” This is just perverse! Like the music industry.