Posting vendors' PDFs

[Liblicense-L Listowner <liblicen@pantheon.yale.edu>]

> From another list ... of possible interest (and response) to 
readers of liblicense-l?  Ann Okerson

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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:49:38 -0400
From: Richard Griscom <griscom@pobox.upenn.edu>
To: SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List <SPARC-IR@arl.org>
Subject: [SPARC-IR] Posting vendors' PDFs

The following question came up in a recent meeting of the 
repository oversight group at Penn: Do vendors retain proprietary 
rights over the PDF files they prepare for full-text databases? 
For example, if we receive permission from Publisher Y to mount 
Professor X's paper in our repository, may we use a PDF created 
by Project Muse or JSTOR in lieu of scanning the article 
ourselves?  Do these vendors exercise rights over the use of the 
PDFs that they have prepared?

Best,
Richard Griscom

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