From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3762 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Rowan Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: The policy of arXiv Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 07:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019506 10180 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:38:26 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Thu May 10 08:40:17 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:40:17 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Hm6ub-0002kq-94 for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:34:21 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 22 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3762 Archived-At: Hi all, I think it is relevant to point out that if people who post articles to the Arxiv agree to grant a permanent, _non-exclusive_ right to distribute the article, that means, that if the operators of the Arxiv, whoever they are, decide to sell copies of the database, or individual articles, they won't be entitled to prevent anyone else from distributing the same material for free. So they can't corner the market on the content, in other words. All in all it doesn't seem that big of a concern to me, although certainly worth a thoughtful discussion. It would be nice to hear from Cornell Library about their intentions. Bill Rowan