Subject: Re: campus literary journal (Roegge, Kathleen) From: Walter Dufresne <wdufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:18:52 -0400 |
In my experience, Mr. Jerving's advice is pretty darn good. And Ms. Awuku-Agyeman's advice may very well be accurate, offered as it is in the roll of a non-attorney from across the world wide web. An intellectual property attorney is, I'd guess, the only person capable of offering an advisory opinion about who owns the copyright to those journal submissions. Knowing nothing about those informal agreements, and very little about Title 17, I'm incompetent here. If a college doesn't retain the services of an attorney specifically versed in i. p., well, that's more than a bit retrograde at the beginning of the third millennium. On a closely-related matter where I have some competence, this is one academic and editor who distinguishes between his research and creative work and his career, who values his work as much as he values his academic career: asking/demanding an assignment of *my* copyright in *my* work is more than a bit Draconian, it's kidnapping my children. The very use of the word "assignment" raises my hackles. Here's what I've done as an editor, working the other side of the aisle from my contributors. In my experience, it's easier to do - easier to get - than asking for an assignment of copyright. Consider e-mailing your journal's authors, en masse, and asking for a license for what you really, truly desire. In your case, it sounds like: 01. web publishing in .pdf and .html formats on the college's own site for xx years *and* 02. re-prints of whole stories/poems/essays, or of excerpts, as stand-alone reprints or as a part of any compilations, including catalogs and reprints of the college's own journals for xx years Your intellectual property attorney might even advise you to have some kind of "consideration" change hands, something a tiny bit more substantive than "we'll credit your name next to your work." This "consideration" would be a form of payment for this licensing. An invitation to autumn's homecoming dinner, or a trivial amount of cash, or a mailed coupon for one of the college-branded coffee cups from the campus bookstore, any might suffice. I'm optimistic. There are ways to do this that are easy, simple, and respectful of the work of researchers and creators. Sincerely, ============================================== Walter Dufresne, adjunct assistant professor Advertising Design and Graphic Arts Department New York City College of Technology / CUNY 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2983 ============================================== 31 Montgomery Place, Brooklyn, NY 11215-2342 tel: +1.718.622.1901 fax: +1.718.789.1452 e-mail: wdufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ==============================================
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