1. Associate Director, Law Library
Authors’ Rights
Beth Adelman
Associate Director, Law Library
University at Buffalo

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

3. Author = copyright holder
Who?
Author = copyright holder

4. 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?

5. Why?

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

7. Language of Publication Agreements
Where?
Language of Publication Agreements

8. 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

9. 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

10. Example 1: Retain Specific Rights American Sociological Review Author Agreement

11. Example 2: Retain Specific Rights J
Example 2: Retain Specific Rights J. of the American Chemical Society Copyright Transfer Form

12. Example 3: Grant Exclusive Rights
Epidemiology Author Agreement

13. Example 4: Amend with Addendum
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)

14. Example 5: Retain All Rights as Author
Electronic Journal of Comparative Law
Copyright Policy
Author retains copyright
Journal obtains license to publish the article as first publisher
Acknowledge EJCL as the source if reprinted

15. Example 6: Creative Commons License

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

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

18. Associate Director, Law Library
Questions and Comments?
Thank You Beth Adelman
Associate Director, Law Library
University at Buffalo