Associate Director, Law Library Authors’ Rights Beth Adelman Associate Director, Law Library University at Buffalo eadelman@buffalo.edu

What are your rights as an author? Why are your rights important? What can you do to protect your rights? Overview

Author = copyright holder Who? Author = copyright holder

Retain all rights, some rights, no rights? Reproduction Distribution Public Performance Public Display Derivative Works What? What is copyright? Group of rights Retain all rights, some rights, no rights?

Why?

Before you sign the publication agreement or copyright transfer When? Before you sign the publication agreement or copyright transfer agreement . . .

Language of Publication Agreements Where? Language of Publication Agreements

What Rights Should An Author Retain? Reproduction Distribution Public Performance Public Display Derivative Works Deal breakers? Negotiable rights? Grant non-exclusive rights If exclusive rights granted then for limited amount of time

Individual Strategies Single Copyright Agreement with Exclusive Transfer of All Rights Amend with Retain Addendum All Rights Choice of Copyright Agreements Grant Grant Specific Exclusive Rights Rights

Example 1: Retain Specific Rights American Sociological Review Author Agreement http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/asr/ASR-TOC2010.pdf

Example 2: Retain Specific Rights J Example 2: Retain Specific Rights J. of the American Chemical Society Copyright Transfer Form http://pubs.acs.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1218205118705/interactive_copyright.pdf

Example 3: Grant Exclusive Rights Epidemiology Author Agreement http://edmgr.ovid.com/epid/accounts/copyrightTransfer.pdf

Example 4: Amend with Addendum SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/AccessReuse_Addendum.pdf

Example 5: Retain All Rights as Author Electronic Journal of Comparative Law http://www.ejcl.org/general/submit.html Copyright Policy Author retains copyright Journal obtains license to publish the article as first publisher Acknowledge EJCL as the source if reprinted

Example 6: Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

Example 7: Springer’s OpenChoice Program Author pays fee to convert article to open access

Institutional Strategies Library content licenses Springer’s OpenChoice Program MIT University of California Ineligible Journals

Associate Director, Law Library Questions and Comments? Thank You Beth Adelman Associate Director, Law Library University at Buffalo eadelman@buffalo.edu