Re: Deadline extended for proposals for STC Annual Conference

[TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> I agree that requiring copyright transfer is greedy. I agree that
> one-time publication rights would be much more author-friendly. It may
> even be true that the policy will discourage presenters.
> 
> However. It has now been some years since my wife learned that a
> computer security conference she was attending the transfer of
> copyright. I would guess by now that this is a standard requirement at
> many conferences.

Right, but in most cases the presenters at these conferences are paid
for their contributions, in which case the transfer of copyright is
the result of a financial transaction (the conference purchases the
intellectual rights). This is not the case with the STC, which bothers
me.

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