RE: campus literary journal (Roegge, Kathleen)

["Perotta, Maria" <perottam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  This is input from my husband, Jim Dix, who has taught Chemistry at State
University of New York, at Binghamton, for 26 years.
: "SUNY policy is that faculty retain copyright to material they
create, even if they use university resources to create it. Thus, all
my lecture notes, power point, animation, etc, are copyrighted by me.
The only way copyright is given up is if I give it up by, for
example, putting the material in the public domain or sign it over to
a journal. Sometimes copyright is ambiguous, so it's best to
explicitly state who has the copyright"

BTW, Bill, I live in New Mexico, and graduated from the UIC program in
Biomedical Communications. It was a pleasure to see you on this blog. Mia
(Maria) Perotta

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Westwood [mailto:westwood@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:55 AM
To: Walter Dufresne; digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Olga Francois; Ryan Jerving
Subject: Re: campus literary journal (Roegge, Kathleen)


Mr. Dufresne's advice is an intelligent, businesslike approach to this
issue.  I can say this as a professional medical illustrator who has been
involved with copyright since 1976 and an adjunct instructor teaching
business practices and copyright to graphic arts students at a local
college.

One point that was not clearly stated however is that the copyright to the
submissions belongs to the authors, unless there is a written document
transferring it to the publication.  Copyright ownership can only be
transferred in writing.

Sincerely,

Bill Westwood


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on 9/8/06 9:18 AM, Walter Dufresne at wdufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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,
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