FW: copyright question...

["Hudock, Sandy L" <sandy.hudock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List Members:

 This is from a professor at my institution. I sent a preliminary response
saying that I understood that first the country's copyright laws, and then in
the US, the individual publisher's contract(s) should prevail, but my
knowledge is pretty limited, so thanks for any and all help with this
question.

Sandy


Sandy Hudock
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Colorado State University-Pueblo
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-----Original Message-----
From: jonathan poritz [mailto:jonathan.poritz@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:39 PM
To: Hudock, Sandy L
Subject: copyright question...

Hi Sandy,

I wonder if you have any idea about the following question related to
copyright.  If not, maybe you have an idea of where I can go to get
a good answer....  Anyway: I am the author of several academic papers.
For nearly all of them, I signed away the copyright to the publishing
house which published the journal.  Now the question is: can I post
an electronic version of (the entire!) article on my personal web site?
I am quite sure I was told this is OK... by some European computer
scientists, who all do this, when I lived in Switzerland.  Whether it is
considered OK in the US is unclear to me.  Nosing around on the net
I often find authors who post versions of their papers, but not always!
It seems academics do this entirely randomly -- i.e., there is no correlation
with a particular publishing house or discipline (among those where I
look for the papers, which are mathematics, physics and computer
science) or physical location of the academic, etc.  I also do not find
a clear answer to this question in my first few searches....

Thanks a lot,
Jonathan


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