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COPYRIGHT MANAGEMENT
OVERVIEW
When you publish a book or a paper, many publishers will ask you to transfer
all copyrights in the work to them. But that is not always to your advantage.
When you assign copyright to publishers, you lose control over your scholarly
output. Assignment of copyright ownership may limit your ability to
incorporate elements into future articles and books or to use your own work in
teaching at the University. Others at Cornell might be forced to pay to use the
material in their teaching.
Unless addressed in the transfer agreement, you may be forbidden by the
publisher to do the following:
Post the work to your own web site or to a disciplinary online archive
Copy the work for distribution to students
Use the work as the basis for future articles or other works
Give permission for the work to be used in a course at Cornell
Grant permission to faculty and students at other universities to use the
material
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has urged
that "...scientists, as authors, should strive to use the leverage of their
ownership of the bundle of copyright rights, whether or not they transfer
copyright, to secure licensing terms that promote as much as possible ready
access to and use of their published work." We present some copyright
options that can help.
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