On Sunday, November 12, 2000, at 06:36 PM, Armel Le Bail wrote:
>>And, yes, I have a legal leased copy of the ICDD PDF-2 CD-ROM, and I'm
>>not willing to violate copyright laws.
>What copyright ? The atomic coordinates in ICSD, CSD and most (+50%)
>of the ICDD dcalc,dobs,Iobs,Icalc are taken by these companies in
>papers published in > 500 journals claiming also to possess the
>copyright.
>The question "who really possess the copyright" of such data
Also my 2 cents (it cost a little bit more in Italy),
just reading the copyright agreement the authors sign with the AIP (J. Appl. Phys., I
have just a copy on my desk, I have to search for others) when submitting a paper:
"......
The author(s) reserve the following rights:
......
(2) The right, after publication by AIP, to grant or refuse permission to third
parties to republish all or part of the article or translations thereof. In the case
of whole articles, such third parties must obtain AIP's written permission as well.
However, such permission will not refused by AIP except at the direction of the
author..............."
I don't know for other journals but probably it is something similar. So base on the
above my comment could be:
I have only three entries in the ICSD but no one asked me for such permission. And
given his comments also no one asked to Armel who has a lot more entries.....
Now who is violating the copyright?
Also I want to see some comment on that....
Best regards,
Luca Lutterotti
Ps - Even if I am in Italy, I also have paid for the ICSD when it was selling much
less copies but the cost is still the same now.
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