To reply to Tom Walker's question - Do those who make PDFs of journal articles that were never copyrighted have a valid claim to a copyright of their PDF of the article? - no, in Berne countries. Copyright dates from first fixation in a medium. Whether this is fixation on paper of PDF makes no difference.
However, I'm not sure what the position is in a Johnny-come-lately-to-Berne country like the US, though (thinking of the protracted copyright life of "Happy Birthday"). Chris Chris Zielinski [email protected] Blogs: http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com and http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com Research publications: http://www.researchgate.net On 10 January 2016 at 21:11, Walker,Thomas J <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am trying to understand the business plan that Oxford University Press > (OUP) has for the subscription journals of the Entomological Society of > America (ESA). In doing so, I found notices of copyright on abstracts of > ESA articles from 1908 forward. For example, see this abstract of an > article published in 1908 in ESA’s *Annals*: > http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/179. > > > > You will see under the title of the article a DOI followed by “First > published online: 1 September 1908”, a claim that is difficult to square > with the history of the internet. > > > > · Beneath the abstract is this claim to copyright: “© 1908 > Entomological Society of America.” > > > > Question: > > > > Do those who make PDFs of journal articles that were never copyrighted > have a valid claim to a copyright of their PDF of the article? > > > > Tom > > ============================================ > > Thomas J. Walker > Department of Entomology & Nematology > PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive) > University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 > > E-mail: [email protected] FAX: (352)392-0190 > > Web: http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ > > ============================================ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > >
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