Dear Otto and everyone,
At 8:57 +0200 5/07/04, Otto Spaniol wrote:
Dear Raouf (and all other delegates),
To my recollection, the discussion regarding the publication of IM proceedings is not clearly reflected in the section related to WG6.6 of the minutes as well as in Action Point (AP62/11).
My understanding of the discussion during the Athens meeting is to negotiate with IEEE Communications Society (not the Computer Society as reported) the publication of IM proceedings and its inclusion in the IEEE digital library. For this IFIP will give up the copyright for IM and in return will receive the royalties IFIP usually receives from Kluwer.
I don't remember that we have made so concrete decisions, namely "giving up the copyright and receive royalties in turn". It would be good if some delegates would respond in order to confirm or disconfirm.
My understanding was Raouf's.
Based on this outcome, I have initiated the negotiation with IEEE ComSoc and we are in the process of drafting an agreement with this respect to be submitted to both IFIP and ComSoc for approval.
IFIP is preparing a new publication contract. The content of that contract is still confidential but:
- the new contract will be valid from January 2005
- its conditions are very good (to my opinion)
Given the following paragraph I'm wondering in which sense the conditions are very good...
Best regards, Guy
- the contract will be much more binding for us than in the past (where we did do essentially what we wanted, i.e. publication A with publisher X, publication B with publisher Y etc.). From 2005 onwards, every publication of an IFIP event must be offered first to the official IFIP publisher.
It will have to be seen whether IFIP will agree with the abovementioned proposal of selling copyright against royalties.
Best regards Otto
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