LICENSING DIGITAL INFORMATION		Authors' Licenses

• Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society: The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society exists to enable writers to collect fees which they would not otherwise be able to get. It is open to all writers working in all disciplines. It is international in scope but is based in the United Kingdom.
• The Authors Registry: Provides an automated rights payment system and other services
• Evolutionary Ecology Research:  This journal leaves copyright ownership with its authors.
• Internet Journal of Chemistry description with link to the license form used by authors for that journal: tasks authors to license their article for commercial redistribution, while leaving them with the non-commercial rights to distribute the work as and where they choose. Under their arrangement with the IJC, the authors retain copyright.
• Journal of Electronic Publishing:  This University of Michigan Press title states that works included in JEP are the property of the authors.
• LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (London Mathematical Society): This new electronic mathematics journal leaves copyright with the authors and requests only a non-exclusive license from them. See their notice on the home page.
• National Writers Union
• "Position Paper on Yale University Copyright Policy" by Scott Bennett, University Librarian, Yale University
• Publication Rights Clearinghouse: A collective-licensing agency operated by the National Writers Union, the trade union for freelance writers. PRC's first licensee is the CARL Corporation's UnCover, owned by Knight-Ridder Information, Inc.
• Sample of license/rights assignment from Author to Publisher, for paper given at a scientific congress. This license can be modified in various ways. Its basic language has proven acceptable to various publishers over the past 3-4 years, in lieu of a copyright transfer.
• SURF Copyright Toolbox: he copyright toolbox is developed to assist authors and publishers to achieve a balance between granting maximum access to a journal article and financial compensation for the publisher. For sample author's license, click on "authors" and then on "license to publish."
• "Who Should Own Scientific Papers,"Science, 4 September 1998: a Policy Forum written by "Transition from Paper": a Working Group sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, funded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.

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