Serious Legal Concerns regarding IFIP Digital Publications
(Note to Klaus Brunstein, IFIP President)

TC6 feels open access to our conference papers is both desirable, and in the long time, inevitable

TC6 wants its future publications to be available via open access, electronically, and at no cost to our readers, and clearly identifiable as IFIP documents

Serious Legal Concerns regarding IFIP Digital Publications (2)

TC6 is deeply worried by the existing contract with Springer

TC6 feels that we, and IFIP, need professional legal interpretation of the IFIP/Springer contract

Specific questions follow-----

Serious Legal Concerns regarding IFIP Digital Publications (3)

If the copyright for IFIP-conference papers is assigned to the authors; can the papers be made available via the WWW - IFIP Digital Library?

TC6 assumes its new digital journal does not come under the IFIP/Springer contract. Is this true?

Serious Legal Concerns regarding IFIP Digital Publications (4)

Is TC6 free to ignore the IFIP/Springer contract on the basis that we would publish, electronically, at no cost to the reader?

Does the existing, trial IFIP Digital Library violate the existing IFIP/Springer contract and so endanger IFIP through legal action by Springer?

TC6 and an IFIP Digital Library -
Background

TC6 wants open access to our conference papers via the Web and at no cost to the reader

And, TC6 wants the IFIP logo and association with IFIP to be obvious and visible

Business Models

Assumption: In the near future publication royalties to IFIP will become negligible

1. Charge the author per paper

2. Find a sponsor

- UNESCO

- EU support

3. Get Google, Yahoo to do it

(Advertising return to IFIP?)

4. Ask Springer what they would charge

H Rudin

2006-05-22T07:39:54